Holiday Snaps!! This is one of our favourite ways of playing with photography - trying out new twists on visual language, testing out new ideas that may evolve into new bodies of work. It's very unlikely we'll make deathless photographs with this stuff, but it sure is fun, and it sure informs our future work.
This year, we are exploring places a little closer to home, but new to us nonetheless. We start off by poking around the Columbia River's gorge district. Next up is Detroit Lake, nestled in the western foothills of the Cascade mountains in central Oregon. Our third stop is Bodega Bay, California - on the coast just a couple of hours north of San Francisco - with ready access to the Russian River wine valley and many beaches. Our last big stop is Waldport, Oregon - on the beach for the last time this year.
Our dailies are shot on Canon compacts - a G10 for Russ and a G11 for Wendy. The pictures are jpegs straight off the cameras - other than downsizing, there is no computer manipulation at all - there really isn't time for Photoshop while we're having fun.
By early 2012, we should have black and white work on our website's "photographs" page. The black and whites are exclusively shot on film, printed in our darkroom and scanned. Russ uses Ilford HP5 and Delta 3200 in 6x7cm and 4x5 formats. Wendy uses Ilford Delta 400 and SFx in 6x6cm and 35mm formats. Russ is working with Mamiya RZ67 and 7II, Fotoman PS45 with a superwide 47mm lens, and Wisner Expedition. Wendy is working with Canon F-1, Holga and Mamiya C330F. Check out our glossary page for more information on this gear.
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