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A Special Request: Tis The Season For Fine Print Giving

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Nov 272011
 

A Call to Action: Buy a Print and Give to Those in Need.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Well the holiday season has officially started. Black Friday is behind us now and we can now look forward to Cyber Monday. Oh boy. I don’t know about you but I did not join the throngs of people lining up to purchase things I did not need. My daughter and her boyfriend made an exploratory foray into the midnight madness, just for the experience, and turned back after only three hours. They could hardly move within the crowds and stores they finally made it into looked like they had been pillaged by a flash mob. Needless to say they returned tired, disillusioned, and empty handed. They thought it was madness. Perhaps we have new converts to appreciating the gifts they already have versus those they think they need.

This year I want to give back. So I am going “grass roots”. I am offering three of my top select prints from West Virginia this year at a special reduced price. All the proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Friends in Action of the Eastern Panhandle. Friends in Action of the Eastern Panhandle is a goal and action oriented mentoring program that uses the power of friendship to bring about positive changes in the lives of motivated families in need in the Eastern Panhandle. Please visit their website to find out more.

So please consider purchasing one of the prints shown below. Each image was created from shooting trips taken this fall. All have been carefully hand-crafted crafted from capture to RAW processing to the creation of the Master File. Each image is printed with archival inks on 13 x 19 MOAB Somerset Museum Rag Fine Art Paper and will last a lifetime. All prints will be signed in the lower right-hand side. Each print is offered at $75.00 and includes shipping.

Special Instructions: Please note that this is a limited time offer. In order to make this manageable only 15 prints of each will be available as part of this Call to Action. This is to ensure that I have enough time to run all the prints and get them shipped out. So please don’t delay. Buy a Print and Give a Gift to Those in Need.

To Order please visit my Website at Robert H Clark Photography. After entering the site go to the Gallery Tab and click on the Holiday Print Special Gallery. Select your print and complete the purchase through the Shopping Cart.

Mountain Ash at Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia.

Twilight at Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia.

The Cascades of Elakala Falls No. 2, Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you in advance for your generous support of this project.

And thank you as always for stopping by to visit.

Bob

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Mountain Ash at Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia.

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Nov 112011
 

Mountain Ash at Bear Rocks, Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. I am slipping out tomorrow for a little day shooting trip up in the West Virginia Highlands. The last few days have been spent setting up my new Epson 3880 printer and the usual other sundry tasks that confront today’s digital photographers. To be quite honest I am suffering from a little cabin fever and there is no better cure, at least for me, than shooting.

Today’s image was shot a few weeks ago in the Dolly Sods Wilderness of West Virginia. As twilight descended upon the scene I cam across this beautiful Mountain Ash clinging for all its life to the rocky soil. At this time of the year the bright red seed heads provide a stunning spark of color to the gray, drab landscape. This is a harsh world along the Allegheny Front. Plants are constantly beaten by winds that dictate their shapes and in what direction they will grow. Torqued and twisted the plants nonetheless remain defiant in the face of such harsh conditions. Humans I do believe would not fare as well living here. The wind alone, relentless and unforgiving, would drive most off the mountain. But there is also a loneliness here that would suck out the life of all but the hardiest of people. I have camped on the mountain when the wind blew. There was no comfort in the sirens song that night. Only a cold and howling tune that would not stop.

But there are times when the wind subsides. Even the wind needs a rest. And on this beautiful fall twilight evening a calm lay across the front allowing one time to enjoy the subtle treasures of the landscape; lichen covered sandstone, mountain ash, huckleberries, cranberries bogs, spruce, and expansive vistas. Twilight light, blue and cool, illuminates the white rocks revealing patterns and textures painted by lichens. The leaves of summer are long gone now replaced by gnarled stems and branches twisted and huddled together. But I know the wind will return and with it a heartless cold. The plants will dig in and brace against the impact. Winter will soon descend upon the mountain covering the land in a deep snow. Another insult, like the wind, that makes life difficult. Spring will come though and with it the thaw that beings new life and growth. This is the way it is at 4000 feet. Spring will come but we will just have to wait.

Technical Details: The image was shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikkor 17-35mm lens at 20mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1/2 of a second. I used a 3-stop Singh-Ray, soft-edge split neutral density filter over the sky to balance out the exposure.

Thnaks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Rocks and Huckleberry – Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia

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Oct 302011
 

Rocks and Huckleberry, Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Last week was quite busy. I made a quick photography trip into the West Virginia highlands with my shooting buddy, Mark Muse, and zipped up to New York to attend the PDN Photo PLus Expo. Both trips were exciting and fun but on different levels. Mark has been trying to get me up to the WV mountains for quite some time and quite honestly I have been somewhat resistant. Sometimes you can get into a mode of sameness which amounts to nothing more than excepting that which is more comfortable. I have spent the majority of my recent photography time in the west shooting slot canyons, deserts, and shorelines. These are subjects I love and which I have developed an affinity for shooting. My biggest complaint to Mark was West Virginia has too many trees. Now this may seem odd to all of you because after all, isn’t all landscape photography viable in all its varied forms? The fact is that I find many western landscapes, of the type I shoot, easier to isolate.  By this I mean that I am able to distill the view into a series of images that simplify the subject matter. Foreground, middle ground, and background all seemed to fall easily in to place. And of course there was no end to repeating shapes, leading lines, and other compositional elements. Subject matter here on the east coast, however, just seemed to elude me. Too many trees, too much complexity, and too much noise.

There is a complexity to Mark’s work that I have always admired. He takes these complex scenes and dials into them revealing the microscopic structure of the landscape-the trees, branches, stems, twigs, and leaves. They are a marvel of detail and subtlety. I love the images but at the same time hate them. Now before you think this harsh, my hate comes from my own internal roadblocks, my own inability to allow myself to see what Mark was seeing. I could see it in his finished work but with a camera in my hand, walking the landscape, the view was noise, not unlike the static of a TV set when the picture goes out.

The solution to this problem was easy. Just keep shooting what I like, and find comfortable, and my world will be fine. But the world, at least my world, does not work this way. Seeking the comfortable and avoiding the difficult will stifle growth. To continue to grow as photographers we must except new challenges. We must go into the landscapes we fear and confront them. Before I go further there are other things to consider. My “way” of shooting, and Mark’s way, are both outgrowths of our collective experiences, gleaned throughout our lives. Pretty heavy, I know, but it is true. What and how I see are different than Mark’s, and in fact, different than all the other photographers shooting today. Everyone one of us is drawn to different aspects of what we shoot. The patterns, textures, colors, light, compositional elements, compositional style, capture methods, processing methods, etc inform the what, how, where, and when of what we shoot. What I am getting at here is difficult to describe. The challenge for me was to not shoot what Mark shoots because that is not me. The challenge was to find my own voice, utilizing my experiential experiences, and vision, all in a landscape where I often wander with eyes wide open, like a deer in headlights, never taking the camera out of my pack.

Today’s image is one of many I took on my recent sojourn into the unknown. And guess what. The fear of the unknown is irrational. I did find much of the landscape daunting but this is a result of my unfamiliarity with my shooting locations. I don’t like everything I shot but I did break down some barriers of my preconceptions and find some compelling images and compositions I could appreciate. This image was taken at Dolly Sods, a wilderness area located at 4000 feet above sea level, on the Allegheny Front. It is a sub-alpine landscape of spruce forests, bogs and wetlands, and rock outcrops. Bear Rocks, located on the northern end, was our second stop during the shooting trip. To say that I only loved the place would not do it justice. It was fantastic. We had beautiful light, dappled and hazy, almost arctic like, with high cirrus clouds. It was complex and noisy but I found structure in the fantastic rocks that could anchor my compositions. Study this image and you can see many of the elements I talk about in my blog posts. I found many successful images that evening and I know that I missed quite a few. But that will draw me back. Yes fear of the unknown is irrational.

Technical Details: This image was shot with a Nikon D3x and a Nikkor 17-35mm at 17mm. The image was exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1/2 of a second. A 3-stop Singh-Ray, soft edge, split neutral density was used to balance the sky and foreground exposure. The RAW image was processed in Lightroom and finished in Photoshop.

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