Nocturne 2011 in Halifax!

I have an installation, entitled You Are Here, in this year's Nocturne: Art at Night festival in Halifax, NS. The event is on October 15th. More info soon!

Reverse Pinhole Image

As stated previously, here is my reverse version of my pinhole image!

Giant Pinhole Camera

While at Ross Creek, I turned my studio into a giant pinhole camera and made exposures of the trees outside. The actual piece is made up of 24 8"x10" sheets of colour photo paper, so it is 60"x32" altogether. I have plans to produce a negative image of it, which will be cyan and white instead of red and black.

Scots Bay Prokudin-Gorskii

Another Prokudin-Gorskii composite, this time of the beach in Scots Bay, Nova Scotia. I used regular B/W film instead of infrared film, but I'm still not pleased with the results. I want to try to get much more vibrant colours using this technique. Will try again.

Holga Nova Scotia

Holga pictures from my time in Nova Scotia.

Halifax, Warped

Halifax, from the Citadel, on a sunny day a few weeks ago. My shadow in the bottom left corner. Back in Vancouver now, missing this blue sky.
Will post many more images from my trip soon!

Trying to Diversify...

...my subject matter. Here are some images I shot around the Ross Creek Centre of landscapes, rather than seascapes. I've put then in decreasing order of preference, with my favourite first, but please tell me if you have a different favourite!

Prokudin-Gorskii continued...

So here are my first "serious" images from my Prokudin-Gorskii experiment with infrared film. I'm a bit underwhelmed. Wish I could get brighter colours out of them. (For some reason they come out very purple??) I think I will try again with regular B/W film, because it seems to come out brighter. I'd like to try one seascape as the sky gets darker in the evening, and one city scene at night. See what those look like.


By the way, here is the link once again to the original work that inspired what I am playing with here:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

Kingsport

One more landscape picture that I've been working on. I've been concerned that these images look very similar to my ones from Iceland. Always on my toes about reinventing my work and not overdoing a concept. That said, I've been thinking about how to know when it's important to exhaust an idea as far as it will go, and when it's important to move on. Trying to do a bit of both these days.

That said, here is a documentation of sorts from a new project I've been working on. I turned my studio into a giant pinhole camera and shot some exposures from it. I have yet to find a colour printer to process the prints, but this is a view of outside, looking through the pinhole on the inside.

New Images!

Some new long-exposure landscape photographs I have been working on here:

Baxter's Harbour

Hall Harbour

Ross Creek Beach

Halifax Panorama

Halifax at night, looking over to Dartmouth.

Prokudin-Gorskii Experiment Works!

I tried again to make colour images out of 3 b/w images, as I had tried to do once in the summer. This time it works! My results are still very messy, but clear enough to see how I can proceed to make better ones. The first one is infrared film, though very underexposed. The second is regular b/w film (the developing of which I messed up due to trying to use a developing tank I found without a lid). I am going to try both b/w and infrared again, next time much more perfect.

Grand Pré

"Was it a year or lives ago
We took the grasses in our hands,
And caught the summer flying low
Over the waving meadow lands,
And held it there between our hands?"

-Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré

Bay of Fundy

I am now at my residency in Nova Scotia! I walked down to the beach from the centre today, overlooking the Bay of Fundy. I had heard about how the highest tides in the world are here, but it didn't strike me how fast and how far the tide moves until I saw it. The tide must have advanced about 20 meters in the half hour or so I was down there. It is intimidating, almost frightening, and very exciting, to see something so big moving so fast.

Solo Exhibition!

An exhibition of colour prints and a video installation, attempting to address the mystery and inscrutability of the natural world.