An evening with Juniper at Glazers
Join us this Thursday at Glazer's Camera in Seattle from 5 to 8pm to see and touch the newest addition to the Moab line. Print demos, raffle prizes, beverages & snacks. Bring one of your own images and see it on Juniper Baryta Rag. Need to stock up on more than Juniper? All Moab paper will be 15% off for this event only.
Photographers are Sleepwalking into a 'Photographic Armageddon'
"Photographers must print images they want to preserve, or treasured photos may be unavailable to future generations when digital storage media wears out or becomes obsolete." -Chris Cheesman
Amateur Photographer Magazine reports the "stark warning from the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) and Photo Marketing Association after Google vice-president Vint Cerf recently warned of a ‘digital dark age’ where data stored on computers will be lost for ever.
"Speaking at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose, California, Cerf said last month: ‘When you think about the quantity of documentation from our daily lives that’s captured in digital form, like our interactions by email, people’s tweets, and all the World Wide Web, it’s clear that we stand to lose an awful lot of our history.’
Turn the clock back 175 years when the emerging photographic trend of the day was more salt-print than selfie. Photography pioneer Fox Talbot was busy churning out prints from the earliest form of paper photography.
Yet, Fox Talbot’s work lives on today, bringing history to life in an exhibition at Tate Britain that documents daily activities and key moments of the mid-19th century, such as the building of Nelson’s Column."
Read more at Amateur Magazine.
ICC Profiles Now Available For the Epson SureColor P600
The all-new Epson SureColor® P600 features incorporates all new Epson UltraChrome® HD Ink for extraordinary exhibition-quality prints. With unprecedented black density and breakthrough Resin Encapsulation Technology, the P600 delivers the richest blacks with an incredible level of sharpness. Three-level Black Ink technology delivers smooth tonal transitions for the finest black-and-white prints. High-capacity, individual ink cartridges improve your productivity with fewer user interventions. Advanced media handling allows you to easily print with a wide variety of fine art and roll papers. Create borderless 13" x 19" prints and panoramas over 10 feet long. Whatever you print, the SureColor P600 delivers such dramatically bold images, it sets a groundbreaking new benchmark in photographic quality.
Please see ICC Profile Downloads for Moab Paper to create your perfect print.
Maja Bogdanic was one of six fine-art photographers who exhibited her work in The Curator group show last summer. Her work, "Patterned," was inspired by her high school years in Serbia, where she studied fashion and textile design and was taught to find influence in nature. The series (pictured above) explores the relationship between nature and patterns through vivid, graphic imagery.
In addition to the group show, The Curator 2015 is offering the following prizes:
$3,500 Cash Prize
$200 gift card from B&H
VIP Expo Pass to PDN PhotoPlus Expo Oct 22–24, 2015
$250 gift card to moabpaper.com
Premium Portfolio Membership
The winners will also be published in a gallery in the July issue of PDN and an extended online gallery.
Visit www.pdncuratorawards.com/about.shtml for all information on how to enter this year's competition.
Scenes from a Spacewalk- A Starry Night at the National Air and Space Museum
Enjoy an exclusive after-hours program at the National Air and Space Museum's newest exhibition:Outside the Spacecraft. Immerse yourself in the gallery's artifacts and artwork through creative activities and one-on-one conversations with the exhibition curator, featured artist, and an astronaut—all while indulging in cocktails and hors d'oeuvres inspired by the exhibition.
While most of us will never wear a spacesuit to repair the Space Station or use a tether to stay attached to a spacecraft, this rather unnatural line of work inspires and fascinates us. Join exhibition curator Jennifer Levasseur, art photographer and author Michael Soluri, and a very special guest, NASA associate administrator for science and former astronaut John Grunsfeld, to hear musings on their work, and experience the rich visuals created from it. Witness how reflections within the artwork can change our experience of it and set off on a challenge to find those reflections. Discover more about living and working in space with our Education team, and do not miss the opportunity to get into gear for your spacewalk photo op.
Tickets: $35, cost of admission includes a light food and beverage reception.
All discounted tickets have sold out. A limited number of regular tickets are still available.
Illuminated Ground- The Fine Art Photography of Michael Zide
"What is fine art? How do we distinguish works of fine art from other photographic pursuits? It’s a muddled issue at best. These days, there is no end to the stunning and artfully constructed photography work to be seen in print, online, or in galleries. Many of these photos captivate us with their beauty, and inspire us with ingenuity, imagination and their craftsmanship. Regardless of how narrow our particular area of photographic interest, arresting examples can be found by typing a few key words into your computer’s search engine. The level and range of creativity and originality has never been higher."
-Michael Zide
View Michael Zide's Manfrotto Tutorial, Illuminated Ground.
Moab Takes on Nashville
Visit Booth 768 at Imaging USA in Nashville, TN on February 1-3.
Making the Artisanal Inkjet Print
Moab Master, Harold Davis, was recently asked by an art gallerist he works with to help educate some clients regarding his printmaking. Essentially the issues come down to exploring how his prints differ from mass-produced inkjet prints, since largely the same equipment is used. In contrast to those you get from Costco or giclees from an art reproduction company, Harold's prints require a great deal of hand labor. Harold's FAQ: Prints by Harold Davis covers much of this ground, and the following discussion helps put things in perspective.
Harold Davis answers many questions frequently asked by printmakers such as:
What printer do you use? How long does it take you to make a print? Are your prints limited editions? Do you hand sign your prints? Is a certificate of authenticity available? And our personal favorite: What papers do you use?
Join us January 26-28 at The Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino for the West Coast Art and Frame Show.
Photographing Flowers for Transparency
Master photographer Harold Davis is well-known for his often imitated—but seldom equaled—digital images of luscious transparent and translucent flowers.
In a unique 5-day workshop offering at Maine Media Workshops+College, Harold Davis shows the techniques he pioneered to create his floral masterpieces. Arrangement, composition, photography, and post-production will all be covered, as will Harold's special techniques for shooting on a light box. In addition, several sessions will explore field floral photography, and alternative techniques related to the studio photography of flowers. Harold will also show his spectacular botanical prints in the context of a discussion of the best way to create prints of floral imagery.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to enhance your floral photography by learning from Harold Davis, the best-selling author of award-winning Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis.
Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to compose, photograph and post-process their own transparent floral images from beginning-to-end during the workshop. Field and studio sessions will demonstrate creative techniques across the gamut of different kinds of flower photography, and allow plenty of time for individual image making. The emphasis of this workshop will be to support each participant, enabling their own unique vision and helping them to become the best flower photographer they can be.
Welcome to John Stanmeyer, Our Newest Moab Master
Moab is proud to have John Stanmeyer join the Moab Master team.
Working regularly for National Geographic Magazine, was on contract with Time Magazine for over 10 years and photographing for numerous other global publications, Stanmeyer has been the recipient of numerous honors including the prestigious Robert Capa award, named Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded numerous World Press, Picture of the Year and NPPA awards and in 2008 received the National Magazine Award for this in-depth essay on the global Malaria epidemic.
Having printed for years my work in exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world, no other paper renders more beautifully and effortlessly than Moab Exhibition Luster 300. I am elated to have embraced with passion and purpose all my printing to paper that presents humanity as I had borne witness to
-John Stanmeyer
Printed All On Moab Entrada Rag Natural
Photography Talk with Michael Zide
Join us for a reception and gallery talk with Michael Zide, “Not Just Another Pretty Picture”, a visual presentation about making more pow- erful landscape photographs and developing your personal vision. Michael will speak about the thinking and technique that went into making many of his stunning landscape photographs.
A fine art landscape photographer and educator, Michael Zide has created a body of work that has been featured both internationally and in galleries from New York City to Los Angeles. A member of Moab fine art paper Master Photographers Program and contributing writer for the Manfrotto School of Xcellence, his landscape images are in museum, corporate and private collections.
Michael Zide’s work is currently on exhibit in the Baystate Arts Alive
Gallery, Daly 3, MRI Connector. Refreshments served. FREE!
Travel Photographer of the Year- Wild and Vibrant
Congratulations to Moab Master, Joshua Holko, for winning the 2014 Travel Photographer of the Year award in the Wild and Vibrant category after a two month journey in South Georgia Island, Patagonia and Antartica. Joshua Holko used Somerset Museum Rag for his prints.
"Travel photographer of the Year is one of the few remaining competitions that still judge the printed image and it is a massive thrill and honour to have won the Single Shot Wild and Vibrant Category with one of my Polar Bear photographs from Svalbard in the Arctic.
The winning photograph has subsequently been featured by the UK Daily Mail, National Geographic Itlay, The Guardian, The UK Telegraph, the German news website Spiegel Online and more. Winning Travel Photographer of the Year in the Wild and Vibrant Category has topped off for me what has been a truly incredible year in the competition arena. The standards in these competitions are incredibly high and it an immense honour to win the category."
-Joshua Holko
Tamrac's Winter Wish List Giveaway
Be sure to enter in Tamrac's Winter Wish List giveaways including the prize of 3 Moab sample boxes along with many others. If you’re feeling lucky, this might make your holidays that much better. Good luck!
Congratulations to Michael Soluri on Infinite Worlds
Congratulations to Michael Soluri on his new book, Infinite Worlds, and his insightful presentation with journalist Miles O'brien on the people behind the scenes in the worlds of NASA during SM4.
Coco Chanel: Three Weeks/1962 With Douglas Kirkland
