Merced River and Forest
ORIGINAL PRINT AVAILABLE AT A SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE ONLINE From time to time, I make special print offerings available at reduced prices. The new Special Collectors Edition offering of Merced River and Forest shown above is now available for order online. This hand crafted silver gelatin print is available for a limited time at the very special price of $700, a discount of 30% from the retail price in galleries. To learn more about this print, or to order, follow this link: In the fall of 1983 I was working closely with Eastman Kodak Company in the product development of what would be known a year later as Kodak Elite Fine Art paper. My good friends at Kodak, Bob Shanebrook and Gordon Brown, had flown out to Carmel for a week of darkroom experimentation. Once I learned what they wanted to accomplish in the darkroom I realized, if we worked incredibly long days, we could get through their agenda in a shorter period of time than a week. Then we could all head to Yosemite to make photographs (Bob and Gordon are both passionate photographers). We worked in the darkroom together, running experiments, from early in the morning until the wee hours of the following morning for three days in a row. I remember coming out of the darkroom and finding Gordon asleep on the floor of my studio. Once we completed our work, we loaded up our gear and headed for Yosemite. I, unfortunately, made one significant error. I brought along my empty film holders, rather than the ones I carefully loaded the day before!!! I was mortified when I realized my error. Fortunately, I became aware of it before we went out photographing and, having access to the Ansel Adams Gallery darkroom, I was able to use my backup film to load my film holders. On our first evening we headed to Happy Isles. There isn’t a lot of fall color in Yosemite Valley, but this particular tree on the other side of the Merced River had donned its autumn plumage. I used a Wratten #12 deep yellow filter on my 120mm wide-angle lens. I used the back tilt on my 4x5 view camera to exaggerate the scale of the foreground boulders. The image, Merced River and Forest, which was made in the dim but luminous light of dusk, required an exposure of five seconds at f/32. To increase the contrast of the soft illumination in the forest, I selenium intensified just the forest area of the film. I included this image as Plate 2 in my first book Quiet Light. This silver gelatin, selenium toned print is approximately 10-3/8 x 13", personally printed by me (as are all my prints), processed to current archival standards, signed, mounted, and matted to 16x20" on 100 percent rag museum board. Prints will be shipped within four weeks from the date of order. All prints are carefully prepared and packaged
in specially designed protective shipping
boxes, and shipped fully insured via UPS
ground.
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