One more Pictura note.

Curator Mia Dalglish and the Opossum from the Blackfork Bestiary.

 

Ten Texas Tornadoes wrapping Feb 22 at Longview Museum of Fine Art.

 

The Blackfork Bestiary @ Pictura Gallery in Bloomington, Illinois.

The Blackfork Bestiary, with some skillful curating by Mia Dalglish and Lisa Woodward, made the trip to the FAR Center for Contemporary Art in Bloomington, Indiana.  It's already been there and back again.  Very nice show.  The selection and sequencing caught me by surprise.  I didn't change a thing of their work.  Curators picked prints from the unpublished and matched old favorites in ways I had never imagined.  I felt like I was getting smarter just looking at their layout.  The majority of art folks can leave me a bit uninspired.  Was nice to meet geniuses.

Children's workshop the morning after opening.

                                                         A six-buck donut across the street.

Nice crowd opening night.

Demonstrating how you unwrap bobcats.  Or something.

Lisa Woodward, lighting guru.

With smart people.

Curators Mia Dalglish and Lisa Woodward.

 

Getting to know Negatives....

 I have four notebooks of 6X9 Fuji negs, all HP5/Pyrocat.  Aerial negs print a bit different.  The viewpoint was new, the scene was new, et, et.  Seven flights in all over three trips.  Slowly settling in after burning through three 50 sheet boxes of 11X14 paper.

  Shooting dawn and dusk.  Orbiting Shiprock.  Half the time looking down-sun, half the time up-sun into glare.  Roll film with two cameras, one with a wide angle 65mm lens and one with a 100mm lens.  All the film getting same processing.

  I'm reshooting the same scenes on successive mornings and evenings.  Something will have changed.  As anyone might notice, I'm looking more at the shadows than the landscape.  These images have been calling for a few decades, just took Guggenheim money to be able to lavishly go see them.

  Spent decades photographing from the ground at Shiprock, always trying to get higher.

  Uncorrected iPhone photos from the sheet of white flex over the fixer tray.  Retouching calms them down.  Going to show this portfolio of work at Fotofest in Houston next month.

Haven't named them yet.