Panel Discussion-Contemplative Landscape

Sunday, April 29, 2012, 2 pm: Contemplative Landscape photographers panel discussion; Kirk Gittings, Ed Ranney, Janet Russek, Sharon Stewart and Don Usner. Moderated by Mary Anne Redding  (SEE POST BELOW TOO)
http://media.museumofnewmexico.org/events.php?action=detail&eventID=774

From the press release:

Santa Fe (April 20)—Join moderator Mary Anne Redding, curator of Contemplative Landscape, at 2 pm on Sunday, April 29, for a discussion among some of the photographers represented in the exhibition about their long-term commitments to photographing places both special and sacred in New Mexico.

Kirk Gittings, Ed Ranney, Janet Russek, Sharon Stewart, and Don Usner—will show and discuss their photographs. This event, part of the programming series for Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape is in the History Museum Auditorium. Attendance is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents.

Together, the artists’ works represent faith traditions ranging from ancient Native American practices to Hispanic Catholic rituals to roadside evangelicalism to modern-day Buddhists, each of which has found a home in places like the Galisteo Basin, Chimayo, Black Mesa, San Ildefonso, Cabezon and Abiquiu.

 

Press Release, Canyon of the Ancients National Monument

http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Information/newsroom/2012/mythological_landscapes.html

Large format ground glass-Hopfglass

If you are still shooting Large Format as I am, you might give Hopfglass a try next time you need a ground glass replacement. They have been around since 2004 but I just recently heard of them. Their product looks good and I'm about to give them a try. It is a family operation that seems dedicated to quality and service-the kind of business I like to support. I will let you know what I think of their GG when the product arrives.

Portfolio in Albuquerque magazine

There are a few people on here in my immediate area. Albuquerque The Magazine has a small portfolio of my b&w work this month with some seldom seen images.



from the Albuquerque bosque along the Rio Grande last fall-about 1.5 from my house. Handheld flat stitch Canon 24 T/S. It was shown at the Albuquerque Museum last fall as a Piezography print.

Panel Discusion for the "Contemplative Landscape" show

Contemplative Landscape Panel Discussion. Coming up Sunday the 29th of this month at 2:00 at the New Mexico History Museum in the auditorium. Looking to see allot of friends and colleagues there. Panelists are myself, Don Usner, Ed Ranney and Janet Russek-all very accomplished artists with great stories. Each will give a short individual presentation and then join in a panel discussion.

The discussion will be led by the curator of the exhibit:

Mary Anne Redding
Chair, Photography Department
Marion Center for Photographic Arts
Santa Fe University of Art and Design

I really hope to see some of you there. Seating is limited. The exhibit is up through December.

A little side trip from my commercial shoot in Reno-American Flats.