final impressions blog - October 2006

October 27, 2006

Today I took my 34th firld trip of the year. It was short. Tomorrow is rain and strong wind, so I think this will be the last fall shoot.

People aften ask me how I come to have so many images in my portfolio. Simple answer is a lot of field trips. Some last all day, some are only hours long. Sometimes I get no artwork from a shoot, sometimes 12 or more.

Along the trail in autumn at Horizon Hill. A beautiful place. Maybe today I got one.

October 26, 2006

"Come Home For The Holidays" - Working with Fairport Village Partnership. They will be using one of my Fairport images for posters and promotion during the months of November and December.

"Christmas in Fairport"

October 23, 2006

We are always pleased to help the community, in fact, I personally define citizenship as the responsibly to be involved in one's community. It was with great pleasure to grant the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center free permission to use one of my pastel images "Fall Hike" to be used on their Thanksgiving card. To quote the thank you letter: "We feel that this particular photograph truly captures the positive, peaceful feeling ...". We at Final Impressions are delighted that we could contribute to this very important community effort.

If you receive one of these cards, then my heart felt thank you for your support.

October 22, 2006

The beautiful and majestic Oak. Yesterday, Saturday the 21st, Joe and I explored Letchworth State Park at dawn. The shooting conditions were perfect, a gloomy morning, thick humidity but cool. The wet, now black tree bark stood in contrast to the bright leaves of fall. With maybe 10% of the leaves down, tree structure is once again revealed. This old one, with arms outstretched, will become one of the largest prints in my portfolio to date. The image size will be 16x24 framed to 24x32. This is about the largest size that can be easily glassed.

This is a work in progress.

October 15, 2006

This week on our way way back from a field trip in Pennsylvania - yes the same week that Buffalo had some 2 feet of snow - we ran trough fingers of cold storms coming from lake Erie (some 50 miles to the West of us). These storms were raining Graupel (or would it be "it was graupeling"?) Anyhow, not all graupel hit the ground. I saw this wonderful atmospheric condition which I believe is snow or graupel (white bands) that are melting into rain or slush drops (dark area under cloud) before hitting the ground.

I was lucky (Ansel Adams once said "luck favors those who are prepared") to find this wonderful barn as an anchor foreground object, and also to have a low evening sun illuminating the entire event.

This is really a once in a lifetime shot.

Enjoy ---

"Barn and Clouds"
Artwork of Graupel, Clouds and Barn