Collages from Iceland Prints

Experimenting with some of my old prints of Icelandic landscapes by making collages. Trying to create illusory or eerie patterns of some sort. Not sure where it will go.

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.

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.

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.

Iceland Holga Panorama

Now home from Iceland, I have been working on photoshopping all of the photos I took there. I made some images with my Holga camera, which I like to think of as my "sketching" camera. By that I mean that I use it to take experimental pictures that won't necessarily turn into a body of work. In this picture, I tried to make an in-camera panorama of a beautiful beach we found after a long hike in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula.