Fine Art Photography of Natural and Cultural Landscapes
Barry Lobdell Photography
Fine Arts, Saranac Lake NY
Barry Lobdell Photography
Fine Arts, Saranac Lake NY
The Adirondack Park features thousands of mountains and bodies of water for the adventurous explorer and certainly for artists. Sunrise and sunset are particularly stimulating times of day for the senses, especially the visual. Whether hiking, driving or canoeing, there is always plenty to see. Opportunities for viewing wildlife and the landscape abound
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This limited edition photograph has sold out.
Both images involved in this piece were taken within a couple of minutes of each other from the shore of Lake Flower in the village of Saranac Lake. The guideboat was photographed shortly before totality and later combined with the totality image to illustrate the emotions of the eclipse experience.
The panoramic format adds a special touch to photographing the landscape, wherever it is. Adirondack vistas have proven ideal for panoramic photography, with wide views, reflections and the expansiveness of the landscape captured on film or stitched together in the computer.
A lovely grove of Aspens, taken in southwestern Colorado
A lone tree stands on a farm country hillside outside of Saratoga Springs, New York
Morning mist beginning to rise in coastal Little Compton, Rhode Island
A cold Adirondack afternoon and snow on tree limbs
An Adirondack trail bathed in filtered sunlight
Redwoods in Yosemite National Park, California
Unusual trees photographed on an island in Lower Saranac Lake
An Adirondack Lollipop
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
This series is available in Limited Edition
Adirondacks, Split Rock Falls, Waterfall
The photographs in this gallery were taken with a specially modified digital camera, which makes shooting on the infrared spectrum simple. Formerly, making infrared images required heavy filtration, very long exposure times and a film changing bag, among other things. Infrared photography has many applications, including medical, forensic and weddings to name a few. In my work, I’m mainly using it to record the landscape and architectural subjects, though I do find occasional human and animal subjects as well.
Scene along the Bloomingdale Bog trail
Just outside the village of Saranac Lake, New York
Old and new colliding in the landscape of eastern Colorado
This guy walked out of a nearby doorway and I asked him if I could get a photograph of his arms.
Along the High Road to Taos, New Mexico
Inside Taos Pueblo
Somewhere in Northeastern Colorado
Truchas, New Mexico
Living in the Adirondacks for almost 23 years, I’ve done a lot of canoeing and walking near ponds and lakes where pickerel weeds are common. Although I’d occasionally included the weeds in earlier compositions, never before had I truly explored the beauty and personality which this recent portfolio reveals. This series is presented in Limited Edition. (Fall, 2018)
The American landscape is ideal territory for using a panoramic camera. The landscapes discovered in National Parks and Monuments such as Badlands, Olympic, Monument Valley and Grand Teton are all naturals for this format.
The American landscape is many-faceted, from the east to the west and north to south, there's always something interesting or awe-inspiring to see and capture with a camera. National Parks like Zion, The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Teton and Badlands all offer unique and beautiful landscapes to explore. The thousands of places in between the parks can be just as inspiring, from Manhattan to New Orleans to Santa Fe, the visual richness of this country is amazing to behold.
Like a written palindrone such as kayak, where the beginning and end of a word are reversed, each of these visual palindrones is made up of at least two copies of an original, one or more of which is reversed. The images are then united using computer software and cropped or otherwise manipulated until the final vision is complete.
The viewer is invited to find his or her own meaning, if any, in the imagined totems.
There is no intentional association with a clan or any symbol taken from a clan's experience. Rather, the images are the result of coincidence and serendipity using the technology available to me, through which references to a magical and unreal world are created.
This place is blessed by natural beauty and deeply etched with the markings of almost 200 years of settled history. The subjects of these photographs range from interior views made in homes and other buildings to various elements of the natural surroundings. One cannot contemplate Saranac Lake without considering its location amidst thousands and thousands of square miles of wilderness. My efforts in creating these images were not based on a desire to simply document particular buildings or natural forms but instead to find ways to express my interpretation of those elements from an artistic viewpoint - to bring forth what might be hidden from typical viewing by passersby and get to the core of each subject. In essence, the photographs are attempts at reading the spirit and personality of this place – its past and its present.
Photographs in this gallery are available in Open Edition.
South Beach, or SOBE is part of the city of Miami Beach, Florida and features many examples of Art Deco style architecture, which I find particularly inspiring. The rich colors of the tropical decorations and atmosphere add to the already interesting textures of these buildings.
