Photoduets
I’m having a tiny show of my work at Cafe Duma on Broadway. The show opens next Saturday April 5th, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. I decided to go with a selection of the diptych images I’ve been putting together over the last few years, and I’m very happy with the how it has all come together.
I’m looking forward to seeing them hanging on the walls of Cafe Duma. You should come see. 🙂
Ballard Lochs, Seattle
Taken with a pinhole camera. Somewhere along the way I have become a nature photographer. I *think* I am okay with it…
Bowen Island pinhole shots
Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing
Ghost on the rocks. Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing.
I am really happy with the shots from my little cardboard pinhole camera, taken on Bowen Island over the weekend. I hadn’t used it in almost a year because I wasn’t really sure if I liked the thing, until now that is. I will keep shooting landscape photos for now, and perhaps more portraits as well.
Kirsti has a few of the light painting photos of me up on flickr. I really love this one.
Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing
Taken with a P-Sharan Pinhole camera.
Fruits of a creative weekend
These are collages one and two in my moleskin sketchbook, from my arty weekend on Bowen. I collaged, photographed with a pinhole camera, light painted with my digital camera, modeled, wrote long entries in my journal and ideas notebook, and did one small digital rough for the bird series (which may never see the light of day…)
Buschlen Mowatt gallery on Georgia Street has an excellent show of work by Cecilia Z. Miguez. I saw it a few weeks ago and have been meaning to blog about it. She casts figures in bronze, then remixes them with found objects to create wonderfully whimsical characters. A larger variety of images of her work can be found here. I need to see this show again before it ends.
Gathering
The other day I made a fresh batch of small metal prints, and as of this morning I have listed eight of these for sale on etsy. My shop can be found at rashe.etsy.com, and I have photo prints available there in addition to the metal prints. If you’ve always wanted one, now is the time to buy because I have used up all of my supplies for now.
Three of the shops I have recently made purchases from on etsy, and recommend:
Blockpartypress
Photoglassworks
Hollyhawk
Madhatter, the second
Last week I decided to re-shoot the Madhatter self portrait I did a few months ago. I was never quite happy with the first one, though I do like it in it’s own way, because it wasn’t what I was picturing in my head. But the camera I was using at the time didn’t have a remote, and it was a bit tricky to line up the shot, balance a pile of hats on my head AND fire the camera.
For the second version I was shooting with a rebel XT using the remote, and it made things much easier. This time I could get the spacing in the shot I was hoping for and include more hats. I like the way the bottom hat cuts off my eyes in a weird way and makes the shot just a bit creepy.
Thanks to Hop Studios for their collective loan of awesome hats to include in the shot. 🙂
Coming in for a landing
I am at the beginning of sorting out a theme for a new body of work. I have birds on the brain as the main subject but I’m not sure where I want to go with them. I think ultimately this will be another large-scale image transfer project on either metal or wood, but deciding on materials and display is another matter entirely. First I need to work on imagery.
Today I spent some time reviewing usable bird shots in my archive and creating contact sheets to print out and hang on the wall. My friend Nicole once suggested I do this and I find it the most helpful way to begin visualizing how I want to work with a collection of images. I hang them in my workspace so I can stare at them constantly, and then my half-formed ideas start to evolve. I can already see this will be a photo manipulation project, and I have much more shooting to do. Birds are challenging subjects to work with.
Light painting at Moosecamp
Stewart Marshall
My light painting session at Northern Voice was a big success on Friday afternoon. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves, and hopefully they learned something too. For me it was incredibly fun and inspiring to see such a large group of people creatively collaborating together, and I think we did some really great stuff. And to think I almost decided against doing light painting at all because I felt I didn’t know enough about it. My original intention had been to pull people aside throughout the day to pose for me one at a time, but I think the group session was a much better idea.
The whole thing was inspired by Julian Cash, and the fun shoot we did when I was in San Francisco last October. He’s done this sort of thing at conferences, like foocamp 2007, and I think it makes for much more interesting photos than what you’d typically see resulting from such an event. My purpose for doing it was to come up with creative photos, and I definitely did it. 😀
If there are enough people interested, I’d really love to do this again in the near future. I just need to find an appropriate venue that is both large enough and dark enough for long exposures.
Sharen Burns
Arieanna