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I will be showing work at the Art Movement Stand D10 at Battersea park. Opening night is on the Thursday the 13th and the fair ends on Sunday the 16th.
The work being shown is being exhibited for the first time at this show. A new body of work from the Texas hill county where cowboys work the land, and the landscape dominates the senses. At least from this photographer's point of view. The images shown in this art fair are from the Saving Grace Ranch outside of San Antonio, on a historic ranch now owned by Beth Ann Moore and her husband. Beth was gracious enough to let us photograph on her 90 acre ranch for the afternoon, and introduce us to her longhorns and horses. Quite an experience, not having interacted with these cattle before, and they were as excited as I was. Beth said, she has never seen them so animated, as they ran around the fields, and I photographed from near and far. Near to include a few feet amongst them. The images in the this exhibition, shows it's strength in the perspective of being among them. Their day was interrupped by this stranger with some box pointing it at them and making noises. They began to run all around, kicking up thier heels.. ever seen a longhorn with their feet off the ground, bucking like broncos?
Then at the end of the day, we were introduced to Snort.. he is a celebrity horse, aka Shadowfax featured in two "Lord of the Rings".. movies. As he was running away, I caught him trotting back to the stables. Beth's comment when she saw the picture, "too bad he was not cleaned up"; he is a pure white horse. Beth is a writer and finds living in the hill country a dream come true, after living in many places throughout the country.
Many thanks to Jan Brown for taking us over to her ranch, and to my sister Karen Johnson and her husband Ted for orchestrating the whole project, of which many more pictures from this shoot can be seen on my website.
In addition I've created a book, called Wrangling, and available for purchase, in the links provided.
I have a new understanding of life in Central Texas, in the Hill County, and San Antonio. This is the beginning of more to come.. stay tuned!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Railroad bridge
Hudson Valley- first posting to set up new blog for the website i created last weekend. pretty cool, using visual server.com allows me to be in charge of my content, update on the fly, and share what i'm doing with my photography. after going to Texas a couple months ago to shoot new work, that work is now published on my website, and published in a book, titled "Wrangling". you can go to booksmart.com to see the book.
it's been snowing frequently this winter, and it does make for some great opportunities to capture some awesome moments.. can't say on film, since it's mostly digital these days. then i still have my panoramic cameras and they only take film, so i still contemplate shooting that format. it's just time consuming to process the film and scan, but it does allow for a different approach than shooting with the haselblad/phase back.. since i'm having issues with shooting in the cold with the digital back.
this is the Poughkeepsie railroad bridge, a beacon across the Hudson River which they plan to turn into a pedestrian bridge. What do you do with an old relic that costs more to take down than turn into a useful activity?
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