FIRST SATURDAY ART WALK | Photography Exhibition
Chris Darrow & Steven J. Cahill
Saturday, August 5th | 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Ginger Elliott Center at Claremont Heritage
840 N Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711
Summer Abroad - Panoramic Images by Steven J. Cahill
I am a lifelong photographer who went from developing film in the basement as a kid, through gaining and using professional photo skills, on to simultaneously freelancing, teaching and creating Fine Art work, and currently am adapting to the possibilities the digital world. Early on, I had a desire to capture a wider view with the camera than was normally possible, and combining frames to do this seemed like a good possibility. It worked fairly well just putting the pictures in a line for viewing, but the mismatches of perspective kept them from being one integrated image. While making prints from these early negatives, it was possible to adjust the images by trial and error to make a better fit, but this required backbreaking darkroom work to get them to assemble properly.
Steven J. Cahill
Indian Summer - Images by Chris Darrow
Indian Summer is my favorite time of the year. The intensity of the summer heat has given way to a softer, gentler warmth, ready to break into the coming of Autumn. There is a chill in the air at night and, some say, that Indian Summer can't really begin until the first frost appears. The days begin to shorten and the light is spectacular. Quite often there is a haze in the air that cause the sunsets to become a thing of wonder and grace. I live near the foothills of a 10,000-foot mountain in southern California called, Mt. Baldy, officially named Mount San Antonio. The city has taken much of the rural areas around my hometown of Claremont,
yet the Angeles National Forest and remnants of the former citrus industry still provide a glimpse of what our terrain can produce.
The attempt of these photographs is to indicate that there is still a vast and beautiful
landscape, just minutes from the hustle and bustle of urban sprawl, that one can enjoy. I purposely decided to only photograph the region near where I live. I have limited the pictures to somewhere I can travel to by car, in fifteen minutes or less. It's usually less.
Chris Darrow
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