Great Salt Lake – Folio 8

Great Salt Lake - Folio 8 few posts ago I wrote about a wonderful experience I had had flying over the Great Salt Lake and presented the contents of Folio 1. Instead of going in a sequential order, I have decided to present the last folio in this collection, Folio 8 | The Human Touch Collection. As you will read in the introduction, compared to nature’s orderly creations from apparently chaotic processes give way to the chaotic visuals that human hand seems to create with orderly processes. The roads, structures, curves, shapes, all in the human touch collection show rigidity in place of fluidity, efficiency in place of grace of forms. Don’t get me wrong, I like these photographs as much as the first set and others that will come. However, the differences are certainly noteworthy for me. The folio is available for purchase in the store and is priced at $75 for a limited time.

Great Salt Lake – Folio 8 | The Human Touch Collection

Great Salt Lake – Folio 1

A Great Salt Lake - Folio 1 couple of years ago I received a very special gift for my 65th birthday from my wife and daughter: a helicopter tour to the Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake. The trip was extraordinary for several reasons. First, it was my first chopper flight, a tiny one at that. Second, the Spiral Jetty was a special art I would see. Third, the waters and the surrounds of the lake offered a color spectrum unlike anything I could imagine. During that 90 minute flight I took many photographs from aerial angles, admiring and being dazzled by the colors below. Although I have shown some of them before, I am now organizing them into small bodies of work that reflect a vision, a microcosm so to speak.

The first group is “The Pastel Collection” that includes five photographs in soft cool tones with a salty appearance. The folio is available for purchase in the store and is priced at $75 for a limited time. Below are the contents and the cover of the collection:

Great Salt Lake – Folio 1: The Pastel Collection.

IR Earthscapes Project

As the print version of the IR Earthscapes publication is getting ready, I have been working to have a digital version available as well. Instead of simply replicating the print magazine on computer screen, I wanted to create an electronic document that used the attributes of the digital medium. To account for the emitted light, the background is darker; to accommodate the aspect ratio of computer monitors, its layout is in landscape orientation; and it will have on-screen navigation to skip to the next/previous pages. Here is a preview of the digital edition of the Infrared Earthscapes magazine.

Infrared Earthscapes

The digital version will be available along with the print edition, real soon now!

Infrared Earthscapes Magazine Preview

I hinted at a printed version of the photographs presented in the slide show IR Earthscapes. Here is a preview of the printed magazine. It is much abridged but will give an idea of its contents consisting of three sections. You can flip the pages either by dragging the corners or by clicking on the corners.

IR Earthscapes Sampler

Watch for the magazine announcement coming soon.

Infrared Earthscapes

Infrared photography interests me with its surreal looking landscapes, objects, and people. But all those pale in comparison to infrared aerial photography. Topography becomes abstract, clouds and shadows ethereal and elusive, and the scratches man has made on earth seem insignificant

I have taken many such photographs and shared some in the past. In an effort to show them in a unified way I have been working on a publication and this slide show. There will be more about the publication as it becomes ready for printing. For now, open your mind, sit back for about 8-9 minutes and listen to the meditative music, and enjoy the wonder of Infrared Earthscapes.

Technical note for the interested

I used a Canon G7 camera modified for infrared sensitivity to take all the photographs in this collection from the window of planes as I flew between Providence and Salt Lake City in the last few years. They were recorded mostly as RAW format images and processed to reflect my sensibilities.