ORIGINAL HAND CRAFTED SILVER GELATIN PRINTS BY JOHN AND ANNE AVAILABLE ONLINE – SHIPPING WITHIN THREE WEEKS In 2013 Anne and I will be exhibiting together for the first time. Details of our two joint exhibitions are included in my recent eNewsletter. To celebrate the exhibitions we are each offering a print with expedited shipping. I am offering the image, Merced River, Happy Isles, and the image Anne has chosen is a Limited Edition print, Trees in Snowstorm, Yosemite Valley. The price for my open edition print is $1,000, and Anne's Limited Edition print is $450.
Merced River, Happy Isles,
Yosemite Valley, California To learn
more about the print, Merced River, Happy
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Trees in Snowstorm,
Yosemite Valley, California To learn
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Yosemite Valley or to place an order, follow
this link: In June of 1973 - nearly forty years ago - I attended the two-week Ansel Adams workshop in Yosemite. This image, Merced River, Happy Isles, was made during that workshop. I was inspired to apply for the workshop after seeing the exhibition Master Photographers: Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock and Edward Weston at the Pasadena Museum of Art (now the Norton Simon Museum) as part of a photography class I was enrolled in at Cypress College. Seeing original prints by these three great photographers was a life changing experience for me at the ripe old age of nineteen. I had seen reproductions of some of the well know images by Adams and Weston, but I am embarrassed to admit I was not familiar with Wynn Bullock's imagery. His images of long exposures of moving water had an impact on me. In the notes I made that day at the Museum I wrote this about Wynn's photographs, "... strange effect of extremely slow shutter speeds on ocean gives striking mist effect." My classmate John Charles Woods and I decided that we would apply for Ansel's Yosemite workshop scheduled a few months later, and we were both accepted. I had borrowed a 4x5 from school and a tripod from a good friend. I did have my own light meter... it was built into my 35mm Minolta SRT-101 camera. Far from perfect, but it was what I had. Early one evening during the workshop John Woods and I headed off to one of my favorite places in Yosemite Valley - Happy Isles. Inspired by Wynn Bullock's photographs I decided to experiment with a long exposure of the Merced River. I did not own a neutral density filter. In fact the only filters I had were for my 35mm camera. I deduced that I could simulate a neutral density filter by combining filters of the additive primary colors - red, green, and blue. I had a red filter and a green filter, but the only blue filter I owned was a Wratten 80A filter designed for color photography. I screwed the filters together, and carefully held this less than optically perfect assembly over the lens during the 15-second exposure I had calculated. Amazingly, when I processed the negative the exposure was good, and the image was sharp. One effect that I have never been able to duplicate was how this combination of filters lightened the trees in the background. I still enjoy this image after nearly four decades, and I am pleased to offer it for your consideration. The print size for this image is approximately 8-7/8 x 10-3/16", and is mounted vertically and overmatted on 16 x 20" 100% rag museum board. You can see this image
and place a secure online order for this print at
the Ventana Editions web store: Here is Anne's recollection of making her image: The image I have chosen is a Limited Edition of Trees in Snowstorm, Yosemite Valley, which I made in February 2011. John and I went to Yosemite to attend a photography opening at the Ansel Adams Gallery for our friends Mark Citret and Ray McSavaney. It was raining when we got to the Valley, but there was snow in the forecast and boy did it snow. We ended up spending four days in Yosemite Valley photographing. We were camping and every morning we woke up to a winter wonderland. We would plow ourselves out of the campground in our trusty 4x4 van and we would start our explorations for possible photographs. It was so beautiful. Normally I work with my 4x5 view camera, but this particular late afternoon at El Capitan Meadow it was snowing so heavily with big wet snowflakes that I decided to use my Hasselblad. The camera was wrapped in a large Ziploc bag, with a cutout for the lens. I took one meter reading, set the aperture and shutter speed accordingly, and went out in the blowing snow. Once the roll of film was exposed, I would return to the van, reload the film magazine, check the exposure with my spotmeter, and rush back out looking for more images. The Image Trees in Snowstorm, Yosemite Valley, is approximately 6-1/2 x 6-3/8". Personally printed by me, processed to current archival standards, signed, numbered, mounted, and matted to 14 x 17" on 100% rag museum board. This print is offered in a Limited Edition of 75 numbered silver gelatin prints, plus 10 artist proofs. When the edition is sold out no further prints will be made for sale in any size. You can see this image
and place a secure online order for this print at
the Ventana Editions web store: Prints will ship within three weeks of your order. All the prints are carefully prepared and packaged in specially designed protective shipping boxes, and shipped fully insured via UPS ground. If you have any questions about the prints, please feel free to contact Anne at 831-659-3130, or email: info@johnsexon.com. Our office hours are Monday through Thursday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, Pacific Time.
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