NE Ohio Gathering, May 17-18-19, 2013

[jp80874]

This trip might actually be doable. Not a holiday weekend, doesn't conflict with a planned trip. I would like to see some of my yankee friends again.

Dan,

Your Yankee friends await you with open hospitality. If there is enough time after your trip, I would love to see your first Cuban street photography. Walker Evans you may be. Hope it all goes well.

John

 

[jp80874]

I would love to see the shows! hopefully the images will sell so all the more incentive to see the shows, right?

can't hardly wait!

Dorothy,

Here is a link to the Fava show. It is a six state regional show. Anyone in the five states touching OH and Ohio itself can enter. Deadline is Feb 17. See http://www.favagallery.org/Fava gallery.html and click on the entry form for details. You should enter some of your work. I think it is great.

For that matter many of the people who will be attending qualify geographically and all in terms of the quality of their work.

The other show Peter is entering is the Tillman Crane workshop in NJ. I think in April. That may be just platinum prints, not sure.

John

 

[jp80874]

WOW!! What a lot of enthusiasm this early in the thread. Thank you all for such interest. It is great to see old friends coming back to these events time and again. If you are thinking about coming for the first time, please do it. The only way a group like this builds is if new people come, contribute their thoughts and take away ideas from others. You will see all levels of photography. All work produced from film is welcome. There will be many interesting committed photographers to enjoy. See their work, pick their brains, tell them they are wrong and enjoy the banter. We have discovered some really interesting and diverse places to shoot. It is only fun if we have good people to do it.

You all come, even the lurkers. Introduce yourself and become part of the party.

John

 

[daleeman]

I used to stalk, now I'm legal because I lurk? Other lurkers welcome.

 

[jp80874]

I used to stalk, now I'm legal because I lurk? Other lurkers welcome.

Naw, you been OUT THERE for a long time.

JP

 

[Lee L]

Just got back from a trip to Texas (not all of us are Yankees). Glad to see the Gowin/Gohlke exhibit got extended from the original closing date of May 12 out to June 2 so people coming for the APUG event can see it. I was hoping that Frank would be giving a gallery talk, but that's not on the schedule. Couldn't make the Gowin talk because I was travelling. I took a week-long workshop with Frank in 1981 in Minneapolis at Film in the Cities.

I should be able to make the event. Look forward to seeing everyone, and thanks again to John and Dolly for hosting.

Lee

 

[jp80874]

Just got back from a trip to Texas (not all of us are Yankees). Glad to see the Gowin/Gohlke exhibit got extended from the original closing date of May 12 out to June 2 so people coming for the APUG event can see it. I was hoping that Frank would be giving a gallery talk, but that's not on the schedule. Couldn't make the Gowin talk because I was travelling. I took a week-long workshop with Frank in 1981 in Minneapolis at Film in the Cities.

I should be able to make the event. Look forward to seeing everyone, and thanks again to John and Dolly for hosting.

Lee

Welcome back you all. Glad you are planning on the event. Thank you again for the Google map project mentioned at the start of this thread. I gather it has helped a great number of our visitors.

The Gowin/Gohlke show is definitely a winner. Must see for all fans of them, B&W and Mt. St. Helens. Gohlke has a wide range of formats. Some are printed 8x20, but may be smaller and enlarged. Most look to be enlargements of 4x5 or 8x10. Really nice work by both artists.

I don’t know if Mat is entering Fava again, but Peter and I will be coming out. Maybe we could do another Oberlin lunch if you & Barbara are so inclined. I think deadline is Feb. 17th before 5 PM, but I need to check.

John

 

[Lee L]

Welcome back you all. Glad you are planning on the event. Thank you again for the Google map project mentioned at the start of this thread. I gather it has helped a great number of our visitors.

The Gowin/Gohlke show is definitely a winner. Must see for all fans of them, B&W and Mt. St. Helens. Gohlke has a wide range of formats. Some are printed 8x20, but may be smaller and enlarged. Most look to be enlargements of 4x5 or 8x10. Really nice work by both artists.

I don’t know if Mat is entering Fava again, but Peter and I will be coming out. Maybe we could do another Oberlin lunch if you & Barbara are so inclined. I think deadline is Feb. 17th before 5 PM, but I need to check.

John

Frank was shooting mostly 4x5 at that point IIRC. Earlier work had often been done with a TLR (Rollei, I believe), and around the time of the Mt. St. Helens project starting up he also got one of the Plaubel Makina 67 folders with the Nikkor lens. I believe he had the 80mm. He may have shot some at Mt. St. Helens with the 67 if working quickly was important, as it appears it was in some of his Mt. St. Helens photos. He got interested in the aftermath of natural disasters after a mile wide tornado killed 45 people in his home town of Wichita Falls, TX in 1979. He flew in the day after the storm to check on his family with only a small number of sheets of B&W 4x5 film and his camera. I was listening to the reports that day with a 'dorm mother' on the college campus who was from Vernon, which was also struck by a tornado in that outbreak. There were people in a bank at a mall who sheltered in a bank vault. When they came out the mall was gone.

Frank returned to Mt. St. Helens yearly for something like 9(?) years each spring to record the recovery of the natural areas around Mt. St. Helens.

Lee

 

[mat4226]

I don’t know if Mat is entering Fava again, but Peter and I will be coming out. Maybe we could do another Oberlin lunch if you & Barbara are so inclined. I think deadline is Feb. 17th before 5 PM, but I need to check.

John

I'm IN for an Oberlin lunch! Definitely entering this year.

 

[ic-racer]

I'm IN for an Oberlin lunch! Definitely entering this year.

How about a lunch in Peninsula. John and I and the other locals are planning on getting together for a mid-winter get together at Fisher's in Peninsula Sat. 2/9 1:00. Hope anyone in the area can make it.

 

[jp80874]

How about a lunch in Peninsula. John and I and the other locals are planning on getting together for a mid-winter get together at Fisher's in Peninsula Sat. 2/9 1:00. Hope anyone in the area can make it.

I plan to be there. Let it be said that John never misses a meal.

John

 

[bill schwab]

Sure would be fun to join you Ohio peeps again. I've got this penciled in, but think I may be up in TO doing a workshop with the Carnie crew. We'll see.

 

[Shawn Dougherty]

How about a lunch in Peninsula. John and I and the other locals are planning on getting together for a mid-winter get together at Fisher's in Peninsula Sat. 2/9 1:00. Hope anyone in the area can make it.

Crap, I'm working this Saturday... Going to try hard for May. Have fun!

 

[daleeman]

Confirmed a Hotel in Streetsboro. Not perfectly close, but it took my club points so I can spend my funds on more important things. Yea.

 

[Lee L]

Can't make this Sat for lunch. Doing birthday things for the S.O.

I'm up for a FAVA Six State Show drop-off lunch on the 16th or 17th or both... whenever folks are in town submitting their entries.

I'll try to check in here more often than I have lately between now and then.

Bill, would love to have your company at one of the local events when you can make it.

Lee

 

[jp80874]

Sure would be fun to join you Ohio peeps again. I've got this penciled in, but think I may be up in TO doing a workshop with the Carnie crew. We'll see.

Sure would be fun to have you here. Some where around there is a guy on a shaky motorcycle that really wants another shot at you.


John

 

[jp80874]

Crap, I'm working this Saturday... Going to try hard for May. Have fun!

Shawn,

You just got to find a job that lets you play more.

John

 

[jp80874]

Confirmed a Hotel in Streetsboro. Not perfectly close, but it took my club points so I can spend my funds on more important things. Yea.

Lee,

Isn't there one in the Montrose - Fairlawn area that takes your points? It is closer and there is just about every hotel name that I have heard.

Is the chief birder going to join us?

John

 

[jp80874]

Can't make this Sat for lunch. Doing birthday things for the S.O.

I'm up for a FAVA Six State Show drop-off lunch on the 16th or 17th or both... whenever folks are in town submitting their entries.

I'll try to check in here more often than I have lately between now and then.

Bill, would love to have your company at one of the local events when you can make it.

Lee

Thanks Lee. Is anyone else coming out to Oberlin with a Fava entry? Peter and I were talking about Sunday.

John

 

[bill schwab]

... there is a guy on a shaky motorcycle that really wants another shot at you.

I think I would recognize him! I was so close, I could have pinched his cheek.

 

[winger]

Thanks Lee. Is anyone else coming out to Oberlin with a Fava entry? Peter and I were talking about Sunday.

John

I'm thinking about it. I just don't know if my Mordançage stuff would go over well enough - I don't have much else done in the last 3 years.


I do have the May weekend penciled in. As usual, it's dependent on drill weekend and other things, but I really want to make it.

 

[jp80874]

I think I would recognize him! I was so close, I could have pinched his cheek.

Thank God you are selective, since four of my cheeks were between you and him. Who knows where the Speedster would have gone if you had gotten the wrong one.

John

 

[jp80874]

I'm thinking about it. I just don't know if my Mordançage stuff would go over well enough - I don't have much else done in the last 3 years.


I do have the May weekend penciled in. As usual, it's dependent on drill weekend and other things, but I really want to make it.

I really liked the Mordançage stuff. Go for it. There are so few people doing interesting alt processes that you should have a very good chance of being juried in. You have three entries and last year was the first time I got all three in. I'm sure it was because they were van dyke brown rather than silver B&W.

On the other hand there are so many digital entries that maybe Peter and I will get in just because we are printing silver contact prints. Who knows. Give it a try.

Hope you can come in May.

John

 

[jp80874]

Speaking of being juried in, Dolly and I are going to this opening tonight. Two of my Ohio Farm Museum pictures were juried in to this exhibit.

“Akron Art Museum chief curating UA juried exhibition

The new chief curator of the Akron Art Museum, Janice Driesbach, is curating the 2013 Juried Student Exhibition at The University of Akron's Mary Schiller Myers School of Art.

The free exhibition runs through Feb. 28 in the Emily Davis Gallery in Folk Hall, 150 E. Exchange St. Hours are Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free opening reception is this Thursday, Feb. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m.

UA has offered art classes since it began as Buchtel College in 1870, and the talents of UA art students have been showcased in juried exhibitions for the past 77 years.

Driesbach has chosen more than 50 student works for this year's exhibition, including ceramics, graphic design, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.”

Come to the gathering and make your own show quality images at the Ohio Farm Museum, the Cleveland Flats or the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Commercial over.

John

 

[htimsdj]

Wow, so many posts this far out ....

I'll definitely be present for some part of the May weekend - look forward to seeing everyone!

Also, I'll be at lunch on Saturday at Fishers.

Jeff