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The Art of Photography Today!
I hope you can join me for the opening of “The Art of Photography Today.”
When: September 18th, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Camera Obscura Gallery, 1309 Bannock, Denver, Colorado 80204.
I had one image jurried into this show, of 1,399 entries only 80 were selected for show!
Hello:
I am happy to announce that I am in the new movie “Abraham Obama” by Jet Set Graffiti. They show me doing a photo shoot for the book that will follow, and they show my models in the movie as well.
Here is the movie trailer and it shows one of my photos along with the prep of the model -
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Here is a You Tube clip of Ron English talking about the steps leading up to the movie on CNN -
You can purchase a copy of the movie from the following link -
http://www.jetsetgraffiti.com/category/abraham-obama-film-news/
I hope you enjoy it!
Well, things have been crazy here first with photographing the Obama campaign, then going to DC to photograph the fly girls and participate in Photoweek DC. And now getting ready for my next trip for the Archaeoastronomy of the American South West. I haven’t even finished the first book and I am now in the process of starting the second one. These are long projects that don’t really provide financial rewards until they are finished. The first book has been more than six years in the making and the second one will probably take longer as I will have fewer days each year to capture the needed images.
Aztec Doorway © Bill Young 2002
It will be interesting working on this next book, The locations are a bit more remote and it will be a lot colder taking photos of each one. I suspect this project will be eight years in the making.
Some of the images from the first book have been featured on PBS, and various shows throughout Colorado. I hope to set up a road show for the images soon and perhaps have the book ready to go with them. If you know of a gallery that may be interested please contact me and let me know! figurativephoto@aol.com
Have a great holliday season!
Peace
Bill
Hello:
Well, the Life goes on show was a big success. There were more than 80 images on the wall, we got good coverage, and people had a great time. It was fun participating in the show! And now it is time for Life to go on! I am currently working on a number of projects to include a documentary and two books. I will be doing a number of photo shoots so if you or anyone you know is looking to be photographed let me know! The summer months are rich with photographic opportunities and there is only so much time. One of our dogs gave birth to four puppies last weekend and then two of them later died. The two that are left appear to be healthy and they are growing quickly. I already have a few photo shoot ideas with the new puppies and the mom.
Photographic projects that I am currently working on include
Medieval images similar to what you would see in Boris Vallejo’s paintings. I am not looking to duplicate the images but, to do similar work.
Sports shoots that include team and individual sports. I am interested in everything from pro, school, and amateur sports events.
As always I am looking for models for fine art, abstract, and surreal nudes. I am looking for a broad range of models for the above projects and I am compensating the models on a trade for pic basis.
If you know of great photo ops please let me know!
Thanks for your time
Peace,
Bill
Hello:
This Friday July 11th, is the latest photo show with my work in it. It has been a great experience setting this show up and I think there will be a few surprises for those of you that decide to go to it? We are having images from two clubs that I am a member of as well as a couple of relatively famous photographers from Denver (Hal Gould and Loretta Young-Gautier of the Camera Obscura Gallery) and a photographer from Montana. We will have images from 24 artists on display!
The show will take place at the Smokebrush Foundation 218 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO. You can find it in the Art Depot district just under the Colorado Avenue Bridge on the North side of the street. The show starts at 5 PM on July 11th and goes through July 23rd. Visit the smokebrush website for details. http://www.smokebrush.org/happenings.htm
It was interesting setting this show up! The staff of the Smokebrush center did all the work of actually intaking the images, and putting them on display. I put out a notice that we were looking for images with two photo clubs here in Colorado Springs and requested that they let me know if they were planning to put images up in the show. I received 13 responses from people that they wanted to put images in. 24 people actually brought images to the show. With such a great response we had to turn down a number of pieces of work but, every artist got at least one image into the show. The end result is 88 great photos for people to view! The show is free and open to the public and a number of the images are up for sale so feel free to bring your wallet.
Originally there was going to be a fashion show to go with the photo show. The fashion show was canceled as the producer of the fashion show is unavailable to put it all together. It is unfortunate as in excess of 44 people were participating in the fashion show. We were going to have models, designers, a DJ, a lighting person, a body painter and we invited photographers to photograph the fashion portion of the show. I hope this show can take place at some point in the future. It is amazing the details that go into producing a fashion show of this nature! Well, as the show states “Life Goes On.”
I hope a lot of you make it to the show and take the time to let me know what you think by commenting to this blog!
Peace,
Bill Young – Figurative Photo
