Carol McGorry

Track and Field

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

From the Field

Posted in photography, Uncategorized with tags Caffenol C, Fuji Acros, pinhole photography, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts on February 28, 2010 by carolmcgorry

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.