You may look at the picture above and think “That’s a nice image.” If I left you there, maybe that’s all it would ever be…but let me tell you a story.
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Photography is omnipresent. It is the only medium that’s continually paired with everyday functions like email, texting, social media and the phone. Unlike the tools for other forms of expression, almost everybody has access to a camera in their pocket. Photography is relatable because it is universally accessible. It lives equally as art form or family documentary, as decoration or advertisement. It can be both an artistic pursuit as well as a commercial commodity. And therein lies the struggle
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I turned local instead. And our local ecosystem is pretty special, living at the base of the Sisters Mountains and the Central Oregon Cascades. As the summer set in I started to hike a series of long distance routes weaving throughout the Sisters Wilderness.
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To walk along a river each morning, its bank edged with juniper and ponderosa, marsh grass and other unnamed water plants.
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There’s a myth of the ancient Chinese hermit. A lone mountain recluse, bent over and wizened with long grey hair living in rocky caves
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An old close friend of his once told me the best description of my father was a line from Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, “…angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…”.
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My own prejudices are quickly exposed looking at my bookshelf and artistic inspirations and it’s predominately western white and far eastern authors and artists.
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I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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Each morning for the past two weeks I’ve been walking the same three mile river loop that hugs a small section of the Deschutes River. There’s been clarity in walking the same morning route, a kind of raw meditation in the repetition.
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Landscape photography is often not about finding the hidden spot, it’s about your vision of whatever is in front of you and how you execute it. Recently I was back in the Yosemite, which always feels like coming home to me. When a place touches you like this it will always have that warm enveloping feeling like coming home to a Thanksgiving dinner or seeing an old friend and picking up the conversation where it was left years before.
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These are the intimate times of being a nature artist, when being human fades to the background and what is left is a raw conversation with the landscape…
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I tested the initial Pyrocat HD 2-bath technique on a few rolls of exposed Kodak Tri-X I had already shot with. The results were quite interesting and definitely wetted my appetite to continue testing it…
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