I’ve been photographing Meadowbrook Golf Course periodically since the floods started in June. In addition to a small flood in our basement, the golf course has been flooded with a new lake. Minnehaha Creek breached its bank and there was no stopping it. The course is shut down and will be likely shut down for the rest of the year, if not longer. It has been nothing short of incredible to see the landscape transformed so dramatically in such a short and uncontrolled way. Nature wanted a bayou. Nature got a bayou.

Friday night, we exhibited a modern interpretation of landscape photography in Landscape: Current Interpretations X=11, a group exhibition featuring works by local photographers working with traditional cameras and materials. This was the second exhibition in 2013 by Midwest Passage, a collective of Twin Cities photographers that favor film as their primary photographic capture media. Subjects ranged from more traditional representations of the landscape theme to hand-crafted, alternative/historic process, and abstract prints.

The exhibit was one night only on Friday July 26 from 6pm-10pm at Studio #201 in the California Building located at 2205 California St. NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55418

Midwest Passage – In an age when most photographers have transitioned to digital cameras and all but a few professional photographic labs have closed, there exists a minority of photographers that use non-digital cameras as the means of realizing and expressing their art. The Midwest Passage collective formed in 2012 as an informal group of Twin Cities film photographers to share ideas, technique, and to critique each other’s work.

The exhibit included photographic works from the following artists: Thomas Bertilsson, Peter Boulay, Eduardo Colon, Osama Esid, Anthony Hoffmann, Paul Johnson, Victor Keller, Andrew Moxom, Reid Rejsa, Scott Stillman and Steve Zimmerman.

The exhibit was well attended and A LOT of fun! Thanks to all that attended and participated.

Here is what I shot on April 29, 2012 for World Wide Pinhole Photography Day this year. I have participated on WWPD since 2007 and this was another good year.

Alida and I made a nice trip to a place called Murphy’s Landing in September. I think it was September. Alida is a historical fiction writer and this was a great chance to see the re-creations of the 1750-1875 era in the upper Midwest. The location is set up with period buildings (although the structures are from other sites) and staffed by wonderful and knowledgeable interpreters of Minnesota history.  Check it out!

These were shot with a Leica CL 35mm camera on Acros at EI64 and processed in Rodinal using 1 hour stand development with a couple inversions at 30 minutes at 1+100.