This month’s free desktop calendar features an ethereal image of fog descending over a glacier in Antarctica.
Download it here.
Learn more about Antarctica here.
Preview my book Antarctica here.
Get alerts on my upcoming Antarctica digital photography workshops here.
Correspondence – Nocturne – LI
Correspondence XXXXVI – Nocturne
Correspondence XXXV – Nocturne
This is a selection of my top 12 images of all time. This selection doesn’t reflect sales, publication, or activities on the web. It simply reflects my opinion. Click on the titles to find out more about each image.
Geography
Antarctica, California, Iceland, South America, Utah.
Process
I practiced my typical 80% composite and 20% straight. Can you tell which is which? I hope it’s not obvious and that during this guessing game you begin to look more closely at looking.
Concepts
Light reveals and interacts with surfaces, which both reveal and conceal, sometimes doing both simultaneously. What the viewer sees depends as much on the context (physical location and moment in time) as his or her mental state (education, emotion, intent, awareness).
Magnificent Moment
The time I spent exploring the Great Salt Lake in Utah, several years before these images were completed, was a particularly intense time emotionally for me, some of I hope is reflected in these images and some of which I hope remains personal. The magnificent moment was inside.
View more of my Annual Top 12 Selections here.
There are only 9 spaces left in our Antarctica 2011 workshop. We expect this workshop to sell out next week so if you want to participate register today.
November 29 – December 10, 2011 we’ll explore the highlights of the Antarctic peninsula – Deception Island, Half Moon Island, Neko Harbor, Paradise Bay, Lamaire Channel, Plenneau Bay (the iceberg graveyard), and more.
The workshop will be lead by world renowned photographers – John Paul Caponigro, Seth Resnick, Andy Biggs, with special guests Eric Meola and Arthur Meyerson, and surprise new guest David Duchemin.
Learn more about this once in a lifetime opportunity here.
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.
Learn more about Antarctica here.
Find out about my upcoming Antarctica workshop here.
The image above graphs Blurb’s ICC profile inside sRGB.
Graph Blurb’s new ICC profile and you’ll find something interesting. Blurb’s printers exceed SWOP (standard web offset presses) and they exceed sRGB in cool blues and yellows. What this means is you’ll get the most saturated color if you convert your Adobe RGB 1998 or ProPhoto RGB files into the Blurb color space rather than into sRGB. (Note you won’t get this is you convert sRGB files to the Blurb color space because you’ve permanently lost some saturation by going to sRGB first.)
The image below graphs SWOP inside Blurb’s ICC profile.
Find my Blurb book Antarctica here.
Catch my Blurb seminar at Palm Springs Photo Festival – March 31.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.
The new edition of my Blurb book Antarctica is online now. Same 100 images as the 2nd edition. Lots more text; Voyages, Facts, Climate Change, Disclosure of Practices, and more.
You can find it here.
Catch my Blurb seminar at Palm Springs Photo Festival – March 31.
Tonight I present my lectures Illuminating Creativity and Antarctica.
Sponsored by Canon, the lecture is free and open to the public.
7-9 pm at the Peak Digital Imaging Society in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colorado Springs Senior Center, 1514 North Hancock
I lecture tonight at 7pm in Milwaukie at CoPA.
I’ll discuss my creative process and new work from my project Antarctica.
The lecture is free and open to the public thanks to Canon.
Take these two portable exhibits home and share them with others at johnpaulcaponigro-antarctica.com.
Experience a different way of viewing/interacting images in this image cloud on johnpaulcaponigro-antarctica.com.