RE: Current new show.

My apologies to those who received the email below.  I meant to exclude you from the list of recipients.

Brian Buroker

Photography Website:  http://imagepro.photography.com/brianburoker
Or:  http://photo.net/photos/Brian%20Buroker 

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Subject: Current new show.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:05:31 -0700

If anyone is interested and in the area, I have 5 photographs showing at the Sugarhouse Gallery as part of our Salt Lake Seven group show.  See attached link...
http://http://www.gallerystroll.org/current.htm

Brian Buroker

Photography Website:  http://imagepro.photography.com/brianburoker
Or:  http://photo.net/photos/Brian%20Buroker 

Current new show.

If anyone is interested and in the area, I have 5 photographs showing at the Sugarhouse Gallery as part of our Salt Lake Seven group show.  See attached link...
http://http://www.gallerystroll.org/current.htm

Brian Buroker

Photography Website:  http://imagepro.photography.com/brianburoker
Or:  http://photo.net/photos/Brian%20Buroker 

Introducing Ed Wilson from Cave Creek, AZ

I have had a brief and long distance relationship with the SL7 group. However I've known Kent Miles since forever. I remember we talked about going to Art School together. And, how exciting it was when Kent actually had the guts and self confidence and family backing to actually go to one of the best schools around at the time. I remember just prior to his leaving for school he bought a brand New Calumet 4x5 view camera and set it up in his living room. We walked around it in awe and wonder, neither of us having a clue as to how to use it. I really wanted to go too, but, well, parents being parents I ended up staying home at the U of U.

Anyway, I've been an admirer of the Miles clan since I met them some 40 plus years ago.

As far as photography goes, I've been doing it since I can remember.

I am now a professional photographer in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and a coat-tail member of the SL7. When Kent told me about it I couldn't wait to become involved. I shoot weddings, portraits, and some wildlife. My vast preference is portraiture. I operate a small free lance studio in a 2 horse village by the name of Carefree a little north of Phoenix.

I am including a recent portrait that I like very much. It is difficult to balance the mercenary requirements of photography as a business, and the personal expression and passion of creating art. The hardest thing is to not start repeating yourself and taking an overly formulaic approach....

I want to participate with the SL7 group to the fullest extent possible with a nod to the obvious distance and logistic impediments of living 500 miles away. If you are curious as to my current work, you can visit me at www.bridephoto.net (currently being redone) and www.ed-wilson.blogspot.com


Edward Wilson, Principal Photographer

www.BridePhoto.Net
www.ed-wilson.blogspot.com

ed.wilson@BridePhoto.Net

Photograph: Tianna, ©2009 Ed Wilson

Fascination & Motivation

I have always had a fascination with cameras. However, my ability to get good images has not always equaled my fascination on the mechanics of the device. With the advent of digital photography and my need to use this tool in my work, I have experienced a renewed interest in learning to move beyond snapshots towards creating more refined images. It is amazing that with a minimum investment in a camera and a computer and anyone can have an opportunity to learn to produce great photographs. While I have great admiration for those who develop and print using traditional methods, for me the technology has brought more convenience and ease of use. The photographs we use everyday on the job are critical in our mission to provide 24 hour a day /365 days a year connectivity to those we serve.

My friend and neighbor Bill Patterson approached me about joining the Salt Lake Seven Group. If I remember right he said: “we get together once a month and discuss and show our work. Its not a competition just conversation about our passion for photography”. For about 18 months I have been attending the monthly presentations and discussions. I find the opportunity to meet with others and share work of great benefit on a couple of fronts. First, it is motivational because in order to have something to discuss you need to take pictures. That in and of itself requires one to get out and do some work, try new things, learn new techniques. By doing this you can’t help but improve--experience becomes a great teacher. Secondly, participating in the discussions at the meetings gives one more insight into the processes to become a better photographer. In reviewing the work presented each month we are all able to see differing perspectives. That will make us all collectively better. Looking forward to March 10………


Steve Proctor

Photograph: Requiescant In Pace, St. Mere-Eglise, France
©2008 Steve Proctor

Currently On My Nightstand

In our monthly meetings we have often talked about the importance of looking at the photographs of others for the purpose of learning and inspiration. With this is mind I would like to share two books that have been a great source of inspiration to me over the several months.

The first is The Roma Journeys by photographer Joakim Eskildsen, text is by his wife Cia Rinne and with a introduction by Gunter Grass, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
At over 400 pages this is a very large book. It details the six year journey of the photographer and writer through Hungary, India, Greece, Romania, France, Russia and Finland as they explore and live with the Roma (Gypsies) in each country. What originally caught my attention of this book was the black and white panoramic images that introduce each chapter, I have used them as guides to help me see panoramically. However, it is the color portraits that keep me going back to this book. Taken with a Pentax 6 x 7 camera, the images have such warmth and detail that after months of looking through the book I always find something new. Many of these color images are what I imagine would happen if you were to combine Justin Hackworth with Josef Koudelka.
The text adds to the photographs and a CD of Roma folk songs is included with the book.

For Christmas this year I was given a signed copy of Paul Fusco RFK. Already I consider it one of the best gifts I have ever received. This is also quite a large book, but while The Roma Journeys is from a six year project the images from Paul Fusco RFK are from a single day, June 8, 1968, the day of Robert F. Kennedy's funeral.
Paul Fusco was commissioned by LOOK magazine to accompany and document the funeral of RFK at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to his internment at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C.
There are several images of the funeral and internment that are interesting but it is the images of the funeral train that are the heart and soul of this book. On the day long train ride Fusco took thousands of images of the crowds that lined the tracks to pay their respects to Kennedy. At first glance these images seem quite alike and even redundant, assorted people, often blurred, standing track side. It is only after several viewing that the details start to come out. The layout of the book has the feel of being on the train itself, looking out the window as the world goes by. I now find myself looking intently at each image and seeing the details such as clothes people wore, their houses in the background, their gestures and respectful mourning representing all of America. Recently I have come to think of this book as the opposite of Robert Frank's The Americans. Frank showed an isolated, cold and distant view of America. Fusco shows the better side of America, one in which the color of someone's skin or standing in society doesn't matter, especially in the face of tragedy.

I have seen these images on the Internet and this is one example where the images are lost online, I strongly recommend getting a hold of the book itself.

Images from The Roma Journeys can be found here;

www.joakimeskildsen.com

Images from Paul Fusco RFK can be found here;

www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/c.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.BookDetail_VPage&pid=2K7O3R18ZDN5

Carl Oelerich

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Get Ready for the Springville Salon

I just wanted to touch base with you SL7 stalwarts and remind you that the Springville Salon entry dates are rapidly approaching. You can download the entry form here. Entries will be received from April 7-11, 2009. Your next assignment for our meeting on the second Tuesday of March (the 10th) will be to have a good selection of what you are thinking of entering in the Salon. I'd like to see SL7 dominate the photography entries.

Meanwhile, I have been thinking about the importance of being able to talk about your art. There is a fine line between allowing your work to speak for itself, and being able to speak about art and what it means to you. It is worthwhile to explore ideas and concepts and to discover relationships within your art and between your art and the work that has and is being done in the world. Can you express your philosophy of art? Cultivating this ability to talk about your work may even improve your ability to think about and create the work you do. At the very least, you will become more informed and knowledgeable about your craft and about how you fit into the world of art, which will only help you as you talk to clients, gallery owners and collectors.

What do you think? Please let us know.

Kent Miles
Photographer

Photograph: William F. Buckley at Alta Lodge, Utah ©1993 Kent Miles

February Meeting Re-Cap

The February meeting evoked in me a mixture of excitement, discouragement, inspiration, and motivation.

I have taken my share of "pretty pictures". And while I have enjoyed them and appreciated the "oooh's and ahhh's" from friends and family, I am now at the point where I desire and aspire to move beyond that skill level. I am striving to gain a vision and understanding of what a truly artful photograph is.

And the effort to see what is, and then capture, artistic images is a challenging and elusive task.
But, our group is helping me (i.e. pushing and prodding – in a very professional, tactful, and caring way) to do that. I sense that my horizons are expanding (at least a little bit).

Brian Buroker
Salt Lake Seven

Photograph: Stairs In My Eyes, Chicago ©2004 Brian Buroker