[alt-photo] Re: new website and show

[David Ashcraft]

Thanks to everybody for the replies.  If anybody will be in Long  
Beach, CA June 25th and have the evening free come see the prints at  
Gallery 1233.  Also, I will take some snaps and share them with the  
group.

Brett Weston has been a favorite and I guess obvious influence on my  
work, add to that so many others that I'll not list them here.  The  
challenge is to be inspired to my own unique vision by his passion for  
photography.  I hope not a knockoff.

My Ansel Adams west coast influence and obsession with creating the  
perfect print left me wanting  and I realized pristine prints void of  
meaning, spirit, or emotion were equal to well made prints of step  
tablets.

The wildness of nature is my element, I feel lost in cities, I live in  
a forest so this is what I photograph.  When I met Ruth Bernhard she  
talked with me about photographing where you are now.  I took this to  
mean not only location physically but spiritually.  And Wynn Bullocks  
writings on transcending subject matter to what else is there and  
Minor White's ideas of waiting for your subject to reveal it's self to  
the camera... etc.  The idea being the more technically,  
philosophically, and visually facile you are with your art the more  
eloquent you can be.  Not that I've arrived, but I think it's a part  
of the over all process of the creation of art and dare I say living  
life.

After seeing a platinum printing demo I was hit with the revelation  
that here was a process that had a feeling close to how I felt about  
the photographs I was seeing.  I love this process!  I hope I can  
return to it a little of what it has given me.    FWIW

Thanks again,
David


On Jun 12, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Trevor Cunningham wrote:

> I say the images on the site are lovely. There's a Brett Weston  
> sentiment that seems to come through. As for original/digital
>
> On 6/12/11 10:43 PM, Don Bryant wrote:
>>
>> These nuances
>> can't be properly conveyed over the web, as you pointed out, so why
>> bother going to the extra time and trouble to rephotograph prints to