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Gallery Picks of the Show Women's Perspectives 2022 April 19 - May 15, 2022
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Projection
Amy’s
creative photography project was a result of Covid restrictions, and
it was lucky for us that we get to experience the resulting images.
Jacqueline, the Mannequin, is the star of Amy’s venture.
Using an inherited collection of Victorian clothes, a great
amount of imagination, and cleverly posed mannequins, Amy made
Jacqueline a star; sometimes even gracing the cover a magazine.
It was Projection however, that caught my eye.
All the other photographs caught Jacqueline in various
situations. Some were magazine covers, some were posed outdoors with
a car, or on a lawn, or in a bathroom.
Projection was the only photo that was not a direct
photograph of Jacqueline herself.That made it very interesting to
me. It looks as if Jacqueline was being projected on a screen set up
in the family backyard, next to the garage, at nighttime.
It’s very cleverly done in a monochromatic blue tone that
mimics a summer evening (note the flowers). Our brain reacts to
faces looking right at us in a way that wants us to figure out the
scene we are a witness to.
Any photograph that captures our imagination and makes us
stay with the image a while is a great success. Hostas Rochesterians are lucky to have a great place to
explore and find photographic opportunities in the Finger Lakes
Region. Cathy Fraser has little travel time because she and her
family live in a 100-year-old family homestead above picturesque
Keuka Lake. Even better, her two exhibited photos are of flowers in
her garden. Hostas is a beautifully rendered black & white photo
emphasizing the grace and delicacy of this shade perennial.
Spring Beauty
In order to
create beautiful images of birds on a consistent basis, a wildlife
photographer understands the many elements that combine to make an
effective photo. This
includes exposure, composition, light, sharpness, perch, pose and
background.
In Spring
Beauty, Christy Hibsch clearly understands these elements. The
photo is well composed by placing the bird within the natural frame
created by the blossoms. The viewer is drawn into the image because
of the bird’s sharp eye. Its striking pose causes the viewer to
wonder what this little creature is planning to do next.
In Christy’s image, the perch is as important as the bird
itself. It gives clues
to the type of habitat where the bird lives and the time of year in
which the photo was captured.
By creating distance between the bird and its background,
Christy has produced an image with a background that is pleasantly
out of focus, which effectively highlights the bird.
Spring
songbird photography brings colorful, vibrant opportunities. Christy
has taken advantage of this time of year to create an effective
photograph of the natural beauty that surrounds us throughout this
season.
Natural Treasures: Peacock Connection
Webs
Spider webs
are amazing structures, functional and beautiful. But seldom do we
see such perfection as is revealed in Melissa’s wonderful
photograph. She’s taken advantage of the natural light reflecting
off the webs to set them apart from the surroundings. Her use of
selective focusing – and the resulting bokeh – provides a soft and
colorful background against which the three webs shine. The branches
of the shrub, stiff and hard, accent the gentle delicacy of the
weave. The strands that are holding the webs and the individual
segments respond obediently to gravity with their parabolic arcs.
This is a photograph that we might spend a long time with,
appreciating both the spider’s craft and the photographer’s eye.
Thank you, Melissa.
Fire Island Lighthouse at Sunset Sunset is
a magic time, the sun approaches the horizon and all of the colors
that have been hiding during the strong light of day emerge. The
clouds pick up the receding sun, making them colored in beautiful
oranges and yellows.
Patty has
captured this magic with her photograph Fire Island Lighthouse at
Sunset.
Many photos
of lighthouses are photographed to include the coast line and the
ocean or lake for which they serve as a warning beacon. Patty
has shot the longhouse from the land side…almost taking the
lighthouse out of the environment we are used to seeing portrayed. The road
leads the eye to the lighthouse, through the tall grasses, pulling
the viewer into the photograph. The composition is symmetrical, well
balanced. Colors are strong in the sky but muted in the grasses and
the lighthouse itself. The beacon at the top of the lighthouse is
powerful; it is bright and centers this photograph.
The Blue Rope
Often the
best photographic subjects are things that we would normally walk
by, not paying much attention. Maybe just thinking it is “only” a
rope, for example, and moving on to find more “interesting”
subjects.
Loni did not
do this. As she states in her Artist’s Statement once it started
raining the colors of the rope “popped”. In stopping, looking at
something and seeing how the weather could have a large effect on a
photograph is the strength of her work on this photo.
The
composition is very simple, just a rope but the beauty of the
photograph is how the rope moves sinuously along the bright red
floor. The textures of the two objects contrast with the symmetry of
the rope and the relatively random colors and shapes of the floor.
This image is
very strong graphically, showing simplicity in the juxtaposition and
movement of the rope on the ground. The colors of the ground serve
as a great background to the rope. | ||||||||||||||
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