Reflections

Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec

French-Canadian Weeds!

Baie-Saint-Paul

POISSON FRAIS

Pointe-au-Pic, Quebec

The fishing industry in Quebec of course is in the same condition as that of New England. Our time in the Charlevoix area was brief, but it's a spectacular place. I'd like to work there in spring, but it won't happen this year.

Markings in Canada

Quebec City

On the Ferry to L'Isle-aux-Coudres

St. Lawrence River, Quebec Province

The St. Lawrence

Les Éboulements, Quebec

Early Morning

Baie-St-Paul, Quebec, Canada

Just before I left for the second loop of the Giant Road Trip last October, we spent several days in Quebec Province to visit with Tina's cousin from France who was vacationing in Canada. There are some interesting pictures from those few days that I never got around to making into blog posts.

The Starlite Drive-in Theater

Sterling, Colorado

On July 2, 2012, just back from the Western Loop of The Giant Drive-in Theater Road trip, I wrote that I reached, "Sterling, CO, where The Starlite is still hanging on, showing films from a couple months back, weekends only, on just one of its two screens. The field for the other has been taken by self-storage buildings. I couldn't make contact with anyone, but suspect that will be the fate of the rest of the field by next year. It's hard to imagine this venue managing the six-figure cost of going digital. I found this theater somehow more emotionally resonant than just about any other I've visited, and spent quite a while shooting extensive coverage of it in digital capture. The wind was too strong to make it practical to do anything with the large format cameras, but I found myself visualizing a suite of perhaps six or eight small color prints."

In the past couple of days I've finally gotten around to selecting a set of eight pictures from the Starlite and did a trial printing of a folio of small prints, 9-inch images on letter size paper. Here's a web version.

Web Galleries of Last Year's Work

"Shop Window, Chickasha, Oklahoma"

(One of my favorite "Off Topic" photographs from last year's road trips..you should see the 20" print!)

I've finally gotten around to updating the web galleries page on my web site. At the top of the page if you link on over, you'll find four new listings. One is a gallery with one picture each from all 107 theaters I got to on The Giant American Drive-in Theater Road Trip(s) last year.

Two galleries are "Off Topic"—pictures I made of all sorts of other general subjects. This was partly to keep my sanity on the extended trip. I figured if all I did was shoot theaters, drive, and research more about the theaters online every evening, my head would explode. So no matter how tired I was I tried to do a little off-topic shooting in the morning and evening, and when possible—which wasn't every day by any means—try to do an hour or more of photo walkabout in an interesting-looking town. Something else, kindly pointed out by several of my Kickstarter Sponsors, was that a 63 year old making a 17,000 mile road trip around America was probably going to be in a lot of places for the first and last time, so take the time to find the pictures.

The other new gallery is from my stay as Artist in Residence for a week (in the middle of The Southern Loop of the DI travels) at The Firehouse Cultural Center in Ruskin, FL, last October. While there I taught a weekend workshop on digital photography stressing RAW capture workflow, and gave several presentations and demonstrations. A key element of the invitation though, was for me to spend most of the week making the sort of pictures you see here on WP, concentrating on Ruskin and its surroundings. A sixty picture web gallery is the distillation of that work, with a much tighter edit of real prints planned as a show.

Vision

Torrington, Connecticut