These long landscapes continue the landscape work begun in 1981. In the panoramas I was interested in achieving a sense of being within the landscape instead of just looking at it through a fixed rectangle. The pictures were assembled from several exposures, made vertically or horizontally. The original color negatives were shot either on 4 x 5" sheet film or medium-format, 6 x 7 cm, roll film.
In 1991-92 I was the first visiting artist at Weir Farm, the Connecticut country home of American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir, which had just become a National Parks site. Many panoramas were made there.
At first the prints were Ektacolor prints mounted with small margins in between -- evoking a multi-paneled screen -- but after 2000 they have been blended seamlessly via Photoshop. The first digital prints were Iris prints made by Don Gray at Image House in Santa Fe. After 2001 I have done the digital work myself and the printing on my Epson printer. Sizes vary; the narrow dimension on the current prints is usually 12"
Dates given are dates of the original photography. All prints date after 2000.
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