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LOMO Spinner Test Shot

carolmcgorry — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:00:31 +0000

interesting….

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Testing New Directions

carolmcgorry — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:44:15 +0000

Just got back from Rochester NY with an exciting visit to the George Eastman House. I made this new “test” artwork while in Rochester and just finished processing and working on the file with Stephen Schaub at Indian Hill Imageworks. I leave for San Francisco this Friday and plan on exploring further these new visual qualities while exploring the city.

Filed under: photography Tagged: eastman house artwork, indian hill imageworks, pinhole color negative, pinhole process

Following the Sun

carolmcgorry — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:58:54 +0000

In Vermont….driving along Pawlet Road to catch the last of a day’s light falling above the woods.

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Making toward Something

carolmcgorry — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Shot these cattails backlit by the late afternoon light last week, hiking along a trail in Vermont. I was surprised by the light….had my head down at the time, making my way back over a 2×4 “boardwalk” over Paran Creek. But back in the studio, there’s more…what was I sensing when I stopped for the shot? And how do I get that cold and silence into the image? How do I bring this print home and make it about more than just the thing?

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Cooking Freak Open House

carolmcgorry — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:49:01 +0000

Saturday, December 11th, noon to 4!

Shop local….stop by this Saturday at Carol Moore’s Cooking Studio in Bayport where I’ll be joining local artisans for a holiday sale. Carol (aka the “Cooking Freak”) will be featuring her new, honey-lavender shortbread, and I’ll showcase new work from Indian Hill Vermont as well as Shetland prints treated with encaustic medium. Meet artisans Kathy Seff (glass works), Ellen Cremer (Knit and Felt-ware), Sorella Design (Bridge Winery and plants in hand-painted pots), and Adrienne Lojeck (custom designed hula hoops). Hope to see you………www.cookingfreak.net.

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A New Direction?

carolmcgorry — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:45:46 +0000

Something new…

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Light Writing

carolmcgorry — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:16:17 +0000

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Preview of works Exhibited at Studio 239

Open House Weekend, May 21-23, 2010

Some of the allure of memory is that its imagery is just beyond our grasp; we get only hints and suggestions of detail, of space, of color. The pinhole camera uniquely captures this pleasure, this sense of the eerie—precision eluding the viewer but the subjects, the color and light pull from what we felt was once seen.

These images of the Southern Vermont woods are made with a layering of technique. They are first captured on film with a pinhole camera in 3 to 4-second, handheld exposures. The negatives are then scanned to a digital file and printed in both negative and positive formats on Fabriano Artistico papers. The texture of the Fabriano paper adds a sculptural quality—a depth as the light reflects more diffusely on the surface.

Experience the works up close:

- May 21-23, 2010 at Studio 239, Bayport, NY. Open House Weekend. Friday 6-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 10-3pm

- June 4, 2010 at First Friday, Philadelphia, PA. Friday 5-9 pm…Old City art district, see http://www.oldcityarts.org/start.html.

Note: For a discussion on the complexity of images, words, and music over time, see: www.philoctetes.org/Past_Programs/The_Lure_and_Blur_of_the_Real.

Have you ever tried Pinhole Photography? Would love to hear your comments and thoughts…

Filed under: announcement, photography, Uncategorized Tagged: handheld pinhole photography, Southern Vermont

Track and Field

carolmcgorry — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:21:59 +0000

At the Virginia Center for Creative Arts this winter, eleven inches of snow fell the first weekend of my month’s stay and eight more the next. We worked a boot path in the snow, from the dorms to the studios in what we remembered of the walk underneath. This print is of the view along that path, the blurred lines of sodden pine boughs and snowdrifts swept with the wind.

Below is one of the handheld, pinhole images of a wooden sculpture that I first worked up quickly at VCCA. I later scanned the negatives for detail and toned them brown. This image is 10 inches square, printed at Indian Hill Imageworks on Fabriano Artistico–14 x 17-inches.

Next Week: Color, Color, Color in Vermont

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From the Field

carolmcgorry — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:37:06 +0000

I’ve just finished developing shots made with my Zero Image Pinhole during my stay at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. I was able to develop the negatives using the coffee and vitamin C mix, Caffenol C, but didn’t have a scanner. So these first looks at the negatives are worked up from digital shots on a light table–a way to keep up and running while on the road.

I used Fuji Acros 100 film and spot metered for the bright snow. The radiating slats are partial angles of a wood sculpture that sits out in the field, across from the art studios here. I shot them in late afternoon light and love the graphic effect but will see how they work up later in a scan.

White Sycamore, Sweet Briar College

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Snow Falls at VCCA

carolmcgorry — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:26:42 +0000

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