O'Brien Imaging, custom photo Lab, Eugene OR.

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Work by PhotoZone Member Patrick Plaia

About this show

These images were shot in August 2022. The wheat harvest was for the most part finished. What remained were empty fields and the tracks of the harvesting machinery. The area is rolling hills with the harvest machine tracks as level as possible. These tracks leave a wonderful pattern of curves.

I shot planning for black and white images, and toned them in processing. I visualize my photographs with an eye for graphic composition, impact, and interest. My intent is to let the viewer smile, think, and appreciate a vision of the world that may be unique to them.

This series of images is a collection of toned Black & White landscape photographs. I shoot “real world” images and process them to manage perspective, color, tone, composition, and the final feel of the print.

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Starting in June of 2024

We will be showing work by Walt O'Brien and others in a long term show.

Feel free to stop in and view the work. Pieces may be changed out periodically

for several months. There will be no formal reception.

About this show

"When I first started as a serious photographer more than fifty years ago it was black and white darkroom photography and the Zone system of black blacks and white whites with steps of grays in-between.

Through many twists and turns over the years I have done many different types of photography. Today, I find myself mostly a digital color nature and wildlife photographer with an occasional black and white photo in a show.

Though this is a digital photography exhibit it takes me back to my beginnings with an all-black and white show. It also includes much more wide-angle landscapes and macro work than my usual large telephoto work with 400mm to 1000mm lenses of the past ten years.

I have been urged by old friends to get back to my roots in black and white. Let us see if I succeeded." Greg Giesy

https://greggiesy.zenfolio.com/.

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About the Exhibit

These images were shot on film with large format pinhole cameras (either 4x5 or 8x10), then scanned and printed archivally on an inkjet printer. To retain the “feel” of the analog source, only traditional darkroom adjustments have been made to the digital image, such as spotting, cropping and toning.

Gene Tonry is a long-time member of the PhotoZone Gallery group in Eugene. His interest in photography goes back to the late 1970s when he took classes with master printer George Tice and fashion photographer Victor Steinhart in New York City. Having made the switch from film to digital in the early 2000’s, he now finds it both interesting and ironic to be shooting with film again:

“I have long admired the elemental, dreamy quality of fine pinhole prints, and truth be told, I think there’s something about the anticipation, guesswork, and surprise that’s part of shooting with film that I missed after switching to digital.”

Gene Tonry

This “Moment to Moment” show is about how life changes generation to generation, life to life, year to year, second to second, thought to thought. And how each of those moments affect our senses, our perceptions, our feelings, our relationships and our beliefs. All are in constant motion, colliding like the drops of water running in a river.

In constant motion like a volcano that erupts in minutes but erodes over millennia. Like a flower that blooms for a few days even in barren places, fades in weeks and returns next year. Like a building that supports a family and community for a few generations and rusts.

“Join me as we celebrate our part in the constant spectacle of life, and find beauty and gratitude as we and the world change, “Moment to Moment.”

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PHOTOGRAPHY by WALT O'BRIEN

This show is up through August 31 .

My price list can be viewed here.

I can email a copy here.

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Walt O'Brien's show of old and recent work was up during the month of August 2022.

Ed's B & W work was also showing at Dotson's for the month of June.

The Willfulness of Being

(Life Aware of Itself)

"I don't talk to my house plants or play for them a Fiscella piano composition. That would presume an aging Philodendron can be reflective as an old man
facing his end.

But as I wander through the quiet muse of a redwood grove or observe the blanket of canopy embracing an old bridge, I find myself sharing with them an awareness: That we are each of us a life possessed, one brief moment trailing in the sweep of infinite time and space.

These photographs, a work in progress, are about more than seeing a tree or a leaf. They are about seeing ourselves, in connection with the world around us. They are portraits; profiles of community, of family, of souls wrapped in the fleeting grace of being.

And I believe they are aware of that single moment they inhabit, as we, too, should be. And that in each of these images there exists
a willfulness of being - a life aware of itself.

Look for it. You'll see."

MZ Taylor

Michael does not see art is an end-product, but a by-product, of an artist’s journey. More than fifty years ago he built his first darkroom using cardboard, tape, and a navy surplus enlarger. From that day on the magical journey of photography --- its process and creative potential --- became a passion. For thirty of those years, traveling the western states by motorcycle, he became immersed in its visual frontier; literally feeling and breathing the world in which we live. His landscapes of those years revealed a kind of personality, born of an interplay between the idea of “place” and the “things” that are found there. Today, his journey has become more introspective, seeking to capture life in its purest form: uniquely individual and self-aware.

This is Michael’s first exhibit at the O’Brien Photo Gallery in Eugene. He has also shown works at the PhotoZone, Dr Don Dexter's photo gallery and the NewZone Gallery Downtown, and has been interviewed on KLCC’s “Viz City” program. He is the Coordinator and Facilitator at the PhotoZone Gallery, active board member at Photography at Oregon, and a participant in the Eugene Grid Project from 2018 to 2020. Working exclusively in black and white until the introduction of digital, he has been making photographs off and on since the 1960’s. He has recently re-discovered film with special interest in infrared film.

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Just doing a little advertising for the PhotoZone Gallery's upcoming Juried show after a 2 year hiatus.

Contact PhotoZone Gallery with questions here.

Have you ever seen a Cooper’s Hawk having lunch, a Green Heron catch a frog, an Otter sitting on a log eating a fish, an immature Bald Eagle sunning itself on an old snag, a Great Blue Heron nest building, or a Marsh Wren that seldom appears from the thicket singing to you in the wetlands. These are the sights Greg sees and photographs on his walks and he will share all these wonderful things with you in his new exhibit.

Most people assume that a photographer waits for something to happen with all the patience in the world and there are nature photographers that do, but Greg wanders always looking for the tree, the insect, the mushroom, the bird, the flower that he thinks will take a great photograph.

Greg, an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer, may argue over the word, accidental, if you are out looking for photo options is it an accident that you find good photo opportunities? He would probably say it was the gift to find surprises that can turn into amazing pictures.

The best example this year of an amazing surprise was being on the pedestrian & bike bridge over the Willamette River at Valley River and seeing the diving waterfowl, Common Mergansers, swimming towards the bridge. Female and immature Common Mergansers have a burnt orange head with feathers flaring out behind and a long thin orange beak. An interesting bird to look at but these diving birds arch their back and are gone under the water. This time though Greg was in the right place on a sunny day with clear water so that he could see and photograph down through the water as the Mergansers swam acrobatically under the water to catch fish.

Website: https://greggiesy.zenfolio.com

A record for square inches of wall covered in this gallery

Check out his Common Merganser Series on the PhotoZone Site: https://www.photozonegallery.com/newwork

Bill Haynes, Wet and Dry

Water Abstracts and Bodie CA.

The show will run from October 15 through November 30
There will be an all day reception on Saturday, October 16 from 11-6
Limited to 4 people at a time with masks.

The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B
Eugene, OR 97405
Open 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Call to be sure we’re open

California’s official state ghost-town is Bodie, a former gold mining town between Yosemite National Park and the Nevada border. Founded during the California gold rush and inhabited until 1942 it is preserved just as it was when it was abandoned. At the inhospitable altitude of over 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Bodie had a population of over 10,000 at its peak in about 1880. Eugene photographer Bill Haynes has captured the essence of this haunting remnant of Western history. The collection artistically displays the remaining buildings and their contents just as they existed when the last residents left.

In addition to “Bodie”, Haynes will show another smaller series entitled “Water” consisting of abstract images of water. Colorful and provocative these images challenge the imagination in a pleasant and soothing way.

Bodie and Water Abstracts

Water Abstracts

Photographers:

Ben Birkey, Danger Adams, Sandy Brown Jensen, Adrienne Turner, Jon Sims, Lisa Ertmer, Brian Maneely, Chris Moody, Bee Beins, Karen Landey, Elija McFarlane, Brenna Hansen, Koa A Tom, Bailey Hoover, Kiliisa Alama Conlon, Seth Warhol-Streeter, and Jen Blue