Scott Mathews – Grass Island, Owens River

Grass Island, Owens River copyright 2021 Scott Mathews - I find many natural landscape photographs to be very meditative in nature, especially those which are rendered in black & white.  The more abstract qualities of black & white for me allows these images to appear more poetic, which I feel is evident as in my recent...

Roger Bennett – Boulder, Creek, Limekiln State Park

Boulder, Creek, Limekiln State Park, California, copyright Roger Bennett 2021 - I had recently wrote about a photographic group critique that I attend at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC) for a non-profit organization call the Photographers Exchange. We had the opportunity to actual have this meeting in person to show and discuss physical prints...

Stan Kuran – Water Reflections

Water Reflections, Ralph B. Clark Regional Park, Buena Park, CA copyright Stan Kuran 1994 By Douglas Stockdale - Recently I have been working on a series of photographs that investigate aspects of particle physics and was developing some of these photographs into black and white images, when I saw this on-line photography by Stan Kuran....

Remembering Bill Collins

We are very sad to take leave of Bill Collins, who passed away this February. He was a great photographer and friend, a faithful member of our Photo Exchange group who shared many examples of his photography over the years. I am showing five of his photographs above ("Before the Storm") and below, from our...

Rebecca A. Senf – Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams

Review by Bill Edwards • Rebecca Senf’s Making a Photographer – The Early Work of Ansel Adams provides an engaging historical account of one of our most renowned photographic icons. Senf’s biographical anecdotes allow us to see how his early work allowed Adams to refine his technical skills, perspective of the natural world as well...

Thomas Livingstone – Historic Treasures of the San Juan Mountains

R­­eview by Bill Edwards • Thomas Livingstone’s Historic Treasures of the San Juan Mountains provides a visually stunning journey through the abandoned mines and ghost towns of Southern Colorado. The historical anecdotes provided by Stephen F. Rich, P. David Smith and Beverly Rich equally engage with tales of vast mineral discoveries defining these remote often...

Fall Season – On-line Exhibition

Photographer; Harvey Chin The year is traditionally marked by the passing of time as indicated by the seasonal weather conditions; it is currently the fall while steadily heading into winter. This seasonal period also has events that are well known; Halloween, Thanksgiving, and coming soon Christmas and Hanukkah. Most of these holiday events are family...

Survey of Contemporary Landscape

Diane Reeves, Pyramid, Nevada The investigation and image capture of the landscape dates back to the earliest photographs made by a camera in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce and the landscape still remains as one of the classic photographic genres. Photographers have romanticized the landscape as part of the Pictorialist movement in the early 1900’s...

Douglas Stockdale – Artist talk at Fabrik Projects June 2nd

Middle Ground exhibition, Fabrik Projects, photograph by Don Webb II One of the requests that apparently reoccurred during my opening reception is for an artist talk about this exhibition and artist project. The artist talk is now scheduled to coincide with the exhibition closing reception at 4pm on Saturday, June 2nd (2018) at the Fabrik Projects gallery. To talk...

Douglas Stockdale at LACP Fine Art Exhibition opening Friday, May 25th, 2018

America, Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra, 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale As a member of the Photographers Exchange, I am very excited to announce that two of my photographs from my Middle Ground/En Medio Tierra project were selected by Scott B. Davis for the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) annual Fine Art Exhibition. The two photographs are America, above and the...