Last month's entry was created at Edward Weston's home, Wildcat Hill in the Carmel Highlands. This entry is inspired by his series of Pepper photographs. But I replaced the pepper with a person.
Using modern electronic flash I was able to make a much shorter and more comfortable shutter speed (1/125 sec.) than the hours long exposures required for Weston's peppers.
Of course, this is a wonderful play on Weston's pepper images. It reminds me of a story I was told while exhibiting in Denver, CO many years ago. I visited at the time that my Work had been accepted by the iconic, Hal Gould, Hal was a well-known champion of photography in the Rocky Mountain region who inspired countless artists and visitors to his legendary Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver. He was also a gifted artist himself, a commercial photographer, and a co-founder of CPAC. He showed me around the Gallery and told me stories of the "olden days." One such story that I will never forget involved Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, two of his contemporaries at the time. Hal told me that back then, neither Ansel or Edward could sell their Work for $25! A smart investor who had made a purchase would now have Prints worth tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of dollars....for a $25 investment!
I, on the other hand, had the honor of exhibiting alongside those two Greats as well as Sebastiao Salgado and a rare black and white print of Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl.