MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Exhibit

As some of you may know, my photography has been included in a group show titled
"Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate."

The show was recently on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in association with CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival.

The show was a great success with 6316 visitors viewing the show over 28 days. MOCCA's Director David Liss reported that these attendance figures were among their highest on record.

From January 11 to February 26, 2007, the show will travel to the Dalhousie Art Gallery on the campus of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Here are a few installation photographs from the show. Those not familiar with my work, my four photographs are the long and narrow ones. They are in two sets in different parts of the show.

South Park Panorama

I'm a little happier with this (see previous post). How does everybody feel about preserving the edge effect?

South Park Elk Feeding Grounds

I have been working late the last few weeks. Last night on my way home I was thinking I wanted to go for a bike ride. However, I had just eaten and also noticed some interesting clouds. It was getting close to sunset so I drove down to a place near my house. It is the elk feeding grounds near the river and South Park Bridge. Here are my two more successful images from the evening. I thought the evening was a bust. No shining stars but in the end, I guess these are ok.

Hot summer, Cool River

On Sunday, to escape the heat, Kristi and I headed for the mountains. We hiked in to a remote section of a river I have wanted to try to fish for a while now. It is up in the Island Park Basin. We hiked into a section that I was pretty sure was little visited by others. I wanted to see how the fishing would be away from the hussle and bussle. It is a beautiful section of river and a lot of fun to fish. Also quite easy to fish. The only downer is all I caught were small Brooke Trout. Even though they were small, any day you catch and land over 50 fish is a good day. Oh, I did catch one rainbow. The following image is a quick snapshot with my point-n-shoot.

Dead Cow, it's what's for dinner.

Yum. An image from a BBQ a few weeks back.

Saturday night drive home

On my way home this last weekend I decided to give my new digital cable release a try. I have passed by this pond a number of times and thought I wanted to try photographing it. Night photography was conducive to making the shot considering I have to hop a fence and perform a little bit of trespassing.



Near Driggs, Idaho, July 2006

Bar J

Tonight I was invited to attend the Bar J Chuckwagon. I had never been so I was interested to see what it was all about.



It ended up that the highlight of the evening was making photographs of my niece. She is still young enough that she doesn't really let the camera effect her. She did ham it up a little bit and started to act a little. But her older brother on the other hand froze up any time he knew I was taking his picture. He probably was trying to "pose" as you are 'suppose' to do. The sister however didn't know what "you are suppose to do in front of a camera." She loved seeing herself afterwords on the LCD. Kids these days. I can only imagine how this will forever change the family photo album.

It's a keeper

Warm River Springs

Darren and I photographed Warm River Springs last night.

Darren, how cold was the water? I wouldn't know. I wore waders. Can you feel your legs yet?

Warm River Springs, ID, July 2006

Warm River Springs, ID (looking down stream), July 2006

Playing Catch up

I have a back log of images that I have been meaning to post.

Here are a few from the past few weeks. All night images.

Teton Dam overlook with thunder storm in distance, 11:43pm, June 30th, 2006
408 seconds @ f/4, ISO 320


Redrock Pass Historical Site looking north, 12:34 am, July 2006
1604 seconds @ f/4, ISO 100


Prius w/ moon, Redrock Pass Historical Site parking lot, 1:16 am, July 4th, 2006
406 seconds @ f/4, ISO 200

Have a seat

Rammell Granary

I drive highway 33 each weekend and love to see the light play across the undulating hillside. It reminds me of the palouse in eastern Washington/northern Idaho.

I have wanted to make a photograph that successfully portrays the spirit of this beautiful countryside. I am still trying to find that magical spot and hope I am their when the light is just right.

In the meantime, here is an image I made during this last Friday's trip home. The building are (still?) owned by the family I grew up across the street from. The parents are more like grandparents to me then my blood grandparents ever were. We would go over to their house every Sunday for banana splits, I'd mow their lawn and rake the leaves which paid for quite a few of my childhood purchases and in the fall we would go up to their farm to pick out our yearly supply of potatoes. Many of my childhood memories revolve around these wonderful people. They no longer own the farm but I think they kept some of the acreage near by, possibly the land pictured in this image. They still have their sign up on the entrance road. I plan on making a nice print of this image and sending it their way. I hope they are doing well. I haven't kept in touch as much since they moved to Utah to be closer to family as they get older.

Native cut throat

This is such a beautiful fish. It may not appear big on first glance, however, one must take into account that this was caught in a creek small enough you could jump across.

It is a native cut throat trout. It has some beautiful coloring and was a real treat to catch (and released). I don't know if I have seen a fish with so strong of gold coloring. It was really bright compared to most fish I am use to catching.

I walked up to the deep pool (maybe 3 feet deep at the most) that had a small rock face on one side. I thought I saw this small fish up against the rock ledge. I cast across to it and on the first cast the fish came out to my fly. I jerked too soon anticipating the strike so I missed the fish. A few cast later and this time with a little more patience I waited until the fish hit my fly. It even came down stream a little chasing after my fly. Once the fish was hooked, I knew it was much bigger then I initially thought.

And NO, I will not tell anybody where I was fishing . . . And Darren, if you EVER want to ride in my truck again, you won't tell a soul.

Stringer

Its been a busy week. Lots going on. I did my first stringer job on Thursday. A stringer is when an out of town newspaper calls up locally to find somebody to do a photo shoot for them. Since the paper isn't local and has no way to get a shot, they find a local photog to hire.

On Thursday evening the United States Air Force Heartland Concert Band was in town. The Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald called up my office and talked to Tom about getting a shot of the band for an article they are running about the possible canceling of the band due to troop withdrawals. Tom asked if I was interested and I said sure. I have done a little bit of journalism in my day and thought it would be pretty painless. It wasn't as easy as I planned but it still went pretty smoothly. And i get a good chunk of cash for only 2-3 hours of work. Here are the two photos they will be running. When I get the tear sheet I'll post that as well.