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

[winger]

That sounds like a great day, John! Happy birthday and many more!!

 

[Jeff Bannow]

Happy Birthday John

Happy birthday (slightly belated)!

 

[daleeman]

John,
Sounds like a wonderful birthday out with your bride.

Would you know where we might hire a boat for Saturday that we could see the flats from the water and put in several point for some new points of view? Think that might be worth while?

 

[jp80874]

Thank you Bethe and Jeff. It was a great birthday.

Lee, I don’t know of any boat rentals, but then I haven’t looked for one. Peter and I have both been shooting LF and ULF in the Flats since June. The type of boat you could rent would not be a stable enough platform to prevent blurred images. Hand held, smaller formats at faster shutter speeds might work.

The river is quite narrow above the first bend and very accessible by car on both sides. There are areas where you can’t get in and with the major six lane bridge
construction, there are temporary road closings. It is a small geographic area. We have simply prowled and learned our way.

There are several methods to improve finding your way. Paper maps of Cleveland are available at most book stores. Portable or car based GPS systems allow you to enlarge the maps and get updates. I have wanted to include images of the 600 foot ships and tugboats. Predicting where and when they will be in the area is very easy with software from http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/. Each ship has a transponder that reports minute by minute. The port code for Cleveland is CLE just as it is for airplanes. The software can tell you what ships are in port, what are expected, and where each vessel is on the river. There are ($4.99) apps for this for both IPhones and IPads. I’m guessing other devices are not left out.

We have found the most common transports are carrying limestone for cement, premixed concrete, taconite for steel. These vessels go to several locations pinpointed on the software maps. If you enlarge the scale you can see the roads that get near them.

John

 

[mjs]

Happy birthday, John! Many happy returns!

Mike

 

[jp80874]

Thanks Mike. I hope the hunt is going well.

John

 

[Axle]

Happy Birthday John!

So I got the Friday of the event off work! So I'll leaving around 6am to get across the boarder before rush hour, making a stop in Erie, PA to check out La Presque Isle (site of Perry's Naval base during hte War of 1812), then making my way towards Cleveland on backroads, hitting up the downtown, then Aperture Tremont. Should be at the house late afternoon.

 

[jp80874]

Axle,

Thank you,
Looking forward to seeing you.

John

 

[Lee L]

John is correct about other platforms being supported. From the page he linked to you can find them right by the link to the iOS apps.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marinetraffic.android $3.95
Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/marinetraffic/e59ea6b2-857c-469a-9c31-53494c3b0d8a $3.99

The page John gave the link to also contains the map for use in a browser.

Lee

There are several methods to improve finding your way. Paper maps of Cleveland are available at most book stores. Portable or car based GPS systems allow you to enlarge the maps and get updates. I have wanted to include images of the 600 foot ships and tugboats. Predicting where and when they will be in the area is very easy with software from http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/. Each ship has a transponder that reports minute by minute. The port code for Cleveland is CLE just as it is for airplanes. The software can tell you what ships are in port, what are expected, and where each vessel is on the river. There are ($4.99) apps for this for both IPhones and IPads. I’m guessing other devices are not left out.

John

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Wasn't sure of my schedule until now...

So, responding to John's generous hospitality, it looks like I will be attending the May get-together.

Look forward to seeing you all.

 

[jp80874]

John is correct about other platforms being supported. From the page he linked to you can find them right by the link to the iOS apps.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marinetraffic.android $3.95
Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/marinetraffic/e59ea6b2-857c-469a-9c31-53494c3b0d8a $3.99

The page John gave the link to also contains the map for use in a browser.

Lee

Thanks Lee.

 

[jp80874]

Wasn't sure of my schedule until now...

So, responding to John's generous hospitality, it looks like I will be attending the May get-together.

Look forward to seeing you all.

Glad to read that you will be with us Nick.

 

[jp80874]

For those of us in the area this looks like a very interesting event. Peter has seen the exhibit. I hope to be there with Dolly.

4/13/13 2-4pm Panel Discussion on Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography 4/13/13 2-4pm

THE JANUS EFFECT: New Photographs from Old Techniques

Tregoning & Company presents a Panel Discussion with 4 Cleveland photographers who discuss the use of Alternative Processes in creating Contemporary Photography.

On Saturday afternoon April 13th 2013, between 2 and 4p, Akron Art Museum Collections Manager Arnold Tunstall will moderate a panel discussion comprised of Donald Black, Jr., Gabriel Gonzalez, Greg Martin, and Jeannette Palsa. They will speak about their perspectives as artists employing older techniques and equipment to create their art. The exhibition's Curator, Christopher Pekoc, will also join the panel.

The Discussion will be offered to the general public as a free event. The event will be staged in the North Gallery of Tregoning & Company, 1300 West 78th Street, Cleveland, OH 44102. Wine and refreshments will be served.
Recently gallerist and art dealer Bill Tregoning examined remarkable contemporary photographs created employing 19th century techniques. Artist-photographer Christopher Pekoc was the conduit; he had been struck with these photographs by the quartet of artists Tregoning & Company has now invited to participate in a group show this Spring, with Chris Pekoc curating this exhibition. The simultaneous notion of looking forward and backward invokes the Roman god of the New Year: Janus -depicted in antiquity in double profile, simultaneously looking left and right.

Donald Black, Jr. readily admits to Photography being his first love and relishes the sensory rewards of working with his hands as he engages in traditional darkroom practices. He found those rewards missing with digital photography, so in an attempt to regain them Black turned to a method of capturing images as old as the origins of photography itself: photogravure -a process that produces a continuous tone photograph from an etched copper plate. Rather than using the plate as a negative to produce a print, Black has turned away, instead using the plate as the positive print itself. As if to underscore the satisfaction he derives in this new method, Donald chose to produce a unique, life-size image by conjoining copper plates and presenting them as the final work of art.

Using the more recently abandoned process of developed film, Gabriel Gonzalez noticed intricate abstract patterns appearing on the discarded gelatin silver prints he found in his darkroom waste basket. He knew the patterns were caused by the oxidation of the chemistry as the silver coating on the photo paper reacted to the stainless steel of his developing sink. It occurred to him that he could manipulate the oxidization process to create his own abstract compositions. Then he digitally scanned the compositions, sometimes layering the scans to create more complexity, and printed the final results with an ink jet printer, resulting in dramatic colors and startling imagery.

Greg Martin is constantly drawn to the forgotten and discarded, the decaying, the overlooked and the ignored, with his goal always to reveal to the viewer something they have not seen. In the archaic and long-ignored process of wet-plate collodion photography Martin found a method of creating and revealing that is continuously challenging, constantly inspiring, and amazingly rewarding at the same time. Using period equipment, chemistry, and methods developed over 150 years ago he creates imagery that is beyond the reach of today's state-of-the-art.

Jeannette Palsa also creates images with wet plate-collodion, both forms of ambrotype and collodion images on aluminum. Palsa works intuitively, stating that her philosophy is "to look beyond what you think you see, to make the subject that appears before your
lens more than what it appears." Process and subject combine to create images of haunting ambiguity.



Tregoning & Company's Current Exhibition:

The Janus Effect: New Photographs from Old Techniques
runs through April 27, 2013

CONTACT: Bill Tregoning (216 281 8626)
Christopher Pekoc (216 589 0336)


Current Exhibit: http://www.tregoningandco.com/current-exhibit.html

Tregoning & Company | 1300 West 78th Street | Cleveland | OH | 44102

 

[djkloss]

See you this afternoon!

 

[ic-racer]

Have you been there before John? Do you know of some easy way to get there? 77 to 480 to 176 to 90 to 117 to 6 to 78th?

 

[jp80874]

Glad to see six of us made it: Nick, Dale, Jimmy, Ron, Dorothy, Dolly and me. I used Mapquest to get there, but it didn't know a street was closed for construction. It was a great exhibit and presentation. Sorry if we missed people afterwards. We went over to see the exhibit at Cleveland Print Room, 2550 Superior Ave. Greg Martin is also showing there with several others. If you are interested in wet plate, he is going to do a demo there next Saturday at 1 PM.

John

 

[Lee L]

Would like to have made the discussion and seen everyone, but had prior plans with df cardwell, who was in town for the weekend, and then there was the Mini-Maker Faire at the Cleveland Public Library at the same time.

Lee

 

[Roland Thomas]

Like to know more about you Gathering. i think I would be interested in coming, is there a cost to attend?
Roland
rthomasv@aol.com

 

[winger]

Like to know more about you Gathering. i think I would be interested in coming, is there a cost to attend?
Roland
rthomasv@aol.com

The only official cost is chipping in for the porta-potty. There's usually camping space if the field isn't a swamp (or there are hotels nearby). Food is a "herd-the-cats" thing and we pick a local place that's fairly reasonable most of the time. Or pizza.
It's a fairly flexible friendly group of people who enjoy taking pictures of whatever we can find (there are lots of choices in the Cuyahoga area) and also like sharing the results of our expeditions (bring prints to show). It's always a good time!

 

[jp80874]

The only official cost is chipping in for the porta-potty. There's usually camping space if the field isn't a swamp (or there are hotels nearby). Food is a "herd-the-cats" thing and we pick a local place that's fairly reasonable most of the time. Or pizza.
It's a fairly flexible friendly group of people who enjoy taking pictures of whatever we can find (there are lots of choices in the Cuyahoga area) and also like sharing the results of our expeditions (bring prints to show). It's always a good time!

Let it not be said that the host wants to hog all the jobs. I believe we have a new Public Relations Executive. Thank you madam PRE. You are good, except the part about camping and swamp. Bear in mind we have had campers at each event and madam aways stays in a motel or goes home. Some of the camping misadventures involved rain in the middle of the night when said camper had not used a drop cloth or other waterproofing. That can not be said to be the fault of the camp ground, but it did create some fun stories for the rest of us.

John

 

[jp80874]

Like to know more about you Gathering. i think I would be interested in coming, is there a cost to attend?
Roland
rthomasv@aol.com

Roland,

Welcome. I have been out shooting all weekend with Peter and missed your post. All film and wet plate shooters are welcome. You are welcome to camp or commute. It is not far. We commute during the summer to a boat in Huron, OH. Quote from the boiler plate "If you have not been here before please PM me with name, address, phone, email and emergency contact in case you do something you shouldn’t have. I will return with directions and our phone number."

John

 

[jp80874]

I am really glad to see new faces show interest in joining us. Please know that the only way a group continues is if it grows with new people and new ideas. It also ain’t bad to have the old faithful come back time and time again. Thank you all for making this what it is.

John

 

[jp80874]

Peter and I have been shooting quite often down in the flats for about a year. Dale, Shawn and Peter have posted pictures of some of their favorite places. You can see we have some wonderful locations to shoot. Thanks to Peter’s generously scanning a few of my prints I can now start to add some of mine. I hope others will post images from earlier NE OH Gatherings. Bethe, how about some from the Ohio Farm Museum?

One of the ships that comes to Cleveland quite often is the Alpena. She was built in 1943 and as I understand it, brings liquid cement from MI to a concrete plant here in the flats. Honestly I am not sure whether cement is a component of concrete or the other way around. With all the highway bridge building going on, the Flats must be a high volume cement customer.

I discovered the Alpena on the IOS app described a few posts back. Saturday Peter saw my print from months ago of the Alpena unloading. He liked the picture. Sunday the Alpena was back in town so Peter could compose his own image. We have found that there are several 600+ foot Lake Freighters that regularly bring lime stone, taconite, cement and other bulk freight to Cleveland. Rarely a weekend goes by that some vessels are not visiting the flats. That ought to put a curse on the 17-19th.

Come to the event and make you own pictures.

John

 

[Peter Spangenberg]

Whatever it is the Alpena hauls, it hauls 30 million pounds of it. More than enough to give Archimedes pause and/or take care of J. Hoffa. Quite an impressive spot with easy access. Thanks for the tip John. Here's hoping my photos of the Alpena turn out half as nice as yours. Looking forward to seeing everyone in May.

Peter and I have been shooting quite often down in the flats for about a year. Dale, Shawn and Peter have posted pictures of some of their favorite places. You can see we have some wonderful locations to shoot. Thanks to Peter’s generously scanning a few of my prints I can now start to add some of mine. I hope others will post images from earlier NE OH Gatherings. Bethe, how about some from the Ohio Farm Museum?

One of the ships that comes to Cleveland quite often is the Alpena. She was built in 1943 and as I understand it, brings liquid cement from MI to a concrete plant here in the flats. Honestly I am not sure whether cement is a component of concrete or the other way around. With all the highway bridge building going on, the Flats must be a high volume cement customer.

I discovered the Alpena on the IOS app described a few posts back. Saturday Peter saw my print from months ago of the Alpena unloading. He liked the picture. Sunday the Alpena was back in town so Peter could compose his own image. We have found that there are several 600+ foot Lake Freighters that regularly bring lime stone, taconite, cement and other bulk freight to Cleveland. Rarely a weekend goes by that some vessels are not visiting the flats. That ought to put a curse on the 17-19th.

Come to the event and make you own pictures.

John
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[jp80874]

Thanks Peter for your help. The building on the right of the ship is Christie’s Cabaret. Their website is kind enough to show a Google map, their address and a whole lot more. The map also shows the inlet where the Alpena docks.
http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-...ocal_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBsQnwIwAA