PDX Photo Month at Lightbox Photographic

04/20/2012

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Blue Mitchell - Lucidity (acrylic photo transfer on wood panel)

With spring in the air you might be turning your thoughts more towards the great outdoors than to the hallowed white walls of the art gallery but I tell you now that it is possible to marry both in the upcoming weeks if you are at all near historic Astoria, Oregon.

An excursion to this coastal town, situated at the ferocious mouth of the Columbia River, will not only get you that blast of salty sea air, but can also stimulate your aesthetic consciousness with a group exhibit of Portland photographers held at Lightbox Photographic Gallery. Some stalwarts of the PDX photo world are taking part, including urban minimalist TJ Norris, antiquarian advocate Blue Mitchell, Blue Moon Camera's Zeb Andrews, and silver gelatin master Stu Levy to name just a few. They even let yours truly sneak a piece on to the wall as well.

The exhibit is presented in honor of Portland Photo Month, a bi-annual celebration of photography in the Rose City that honors the diversity of photographic talent world-wide through exhibits, lectures, and workshops on all things related to the capture of light by a lens, chemistry, code or any combination of the bunch.

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Sea Stacks and the Dead Duck

11/13/2011

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Last weekend included a foray to the Oregon Coast; a place that never fails to incite the imagination with its majestic combination of meteorological atmospherics and geologic drama. Like every other visitor to Cannon Beach I succumbed to the dynamic magnetism of Haystack Rock, but I did not allow it to blind my camera to nature's other realities. 
Here then is an utterly unencumbered picture of death the likes of which only a nature outside of human sentiment can conjure.

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More Mini Pixel Than Mega Pixel

03/19/2011

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A good friend of mine, knowing my proclivity for poorly rendered photographs, recently gifted me his old Canon Powershot A520. While certainly not the lowest resolution digital camera I've ever used, at only 4.0 mega pixels it is easily outperformed by most cell phones now. I've already grown quite fond of it, as it allows me to take candid process photos of work I'm doing in the studio (like the failed transfer I'm attempting to reclaim that is pictured above) as well as shoot without fear in all sorts of miserable weather. It's quick to pull out and put away, with very few photographic choices getting in the way of my quickly framing an image and activating the shutter. In short, it's the perfect point-and-shoot, and I'll be presenting some of my favorites here from time to time so that you can see the sort of imagery that inspires and, periodically, graduates to becoming full-fledged drawings/paintings.

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