Category: book signings

A New Gallery Show…Starbucks Tries Something New

October 7, 2010
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Diane Soubly of Have Art is trying something a little different with Starbucks stores here in the Chicago area. She has started a pilot program to bring local artists into Starbucks stores. Now I know a lot of you are thinking, well, local coffee shops have been doing that forever! Yes, they have, and now Starbucks may be joining in that local flavor and making some stores at least a little bit less corporate looking and a little more friendly and community oriented. I think it is a great idea…but then I would. My work is currently being shown at a Chicago Starbucks at 2320 Roscoe (near Damen and Roscoe) through the month of October. The work consists of prints from each of my two books, The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. There will be an Artist Reception on October 21st from 5-8pm. I hope if you are in the Chicago area you will stop by for some coffee, some art, and maybe even buy one of my books. By the way Diane helped to curate and hang the show – that’s what she does.

If you’d like to see some of the prints or books which are on display you can check out what I offer at Quiet Light Publishing. There you can preview the books and prints!

Hope to see you on the 21st! And who knows, I bet I hang around the coffee shop occasionally just to watch folks interact with the work. See you there!

Peace,

Richard

An Hour on Clingmans Dome

October 8, 2009
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Firs & Sunset, Clingmans Dome 

This past weekend I had the pleasure of being in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to do two book signing events at Sugarlands and Cades Cove Visitor Centers. It is always fun to be down there and meet folks coming into the park and get reactions to the book first hand. I have some great notes from a few of those who have taken the book home and written me about how much they love the book. I am always humbled by their notes. This past weekend I also ended up giving some advice on where to go to shoot the sunset in the park to three gentlemen who had come for the weekend to shoot some images. I mentioned that on this night they could go up to Clingmans Dome and get two very different shots, one of the full moon rising in the east and then turn to the west and photograph the ridges of mountains in the sunset. I confessed I was going to try and head someplace else to shoot the full moon rising, since I had shot it from Clingmans Dome before – and I showed them the pages in the book. But I confessed if it didn’t work I might see them up there.

 

Well, as it turns out, the location I thought might work looked a bit to far to the southeast and ridges blocked where the moon was going to come up at 81º in the east. So I eventually headed up to Clingmans Dome and ran into these gents and we ended up shooting together, along with the dozens of others up there that cold, cold evening. I was too late for the moon rise, but got there to shoot the end of the sunset. It is always fun to see how you can have 4-5 folks within feet of each other and we all get different results and see the shots differently. It was also fun to give them some advice on the techniques I use to achieve some of the my images and how late into the darkness I end up shooting, usually being the last to leave an area in total darkness.

 

All three it turns out have studio’s down south but don’t do nature photography. I got a nice note back from one of them who it turns out is the photographer for the woman’s roller derby team in Atlanta – who knew they still had roller derby? He’s got some nice shots of them. Ironically, none of them bought the book – what’s up with that? – but we all had a great time anyway! In his note he said they all decided to come back often to shoot in the park, so maybe the next time I’m there over Halloween weekend I’ll run into them again.

 

Sunset, Clingmans Dome

 

To see more from this hour of shooting on Clingmans Dome use this link: Clingmans Dome Sunset

 

Cheers!

Richard