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| New! An interview by the Catskill Mountain Foundation on-line Guide magazine I am a self taught photographer who photographs landscapes and wildlife...mostly. I actually photograph anything and everything I find visually compelling. I believe good photography should be an immersive experience. Ideally, you should be able to see what the photographer sees. You should be able to feel the respect and the awe and the wonder of it all. Landscape photography is very different from wildlife photography. In fact, they are almost complete opposites. Landscape photography allows for setting up the flow and composition of a shot. It can be orchestrated, manipulated and composited. Wildlife photography is a whole different animal (pun intended). Animals do not pose, sit still, smile for the camera or wait for you to get it right. The immediacy of the moment is usually all there is. You either get the shot or you do not. If you get too close, animals will run, or, in the worst case scenario, try to eat you. It is my hope that by showing these photographs that the viewer will gain a sense of the absolute love, respect and wonder of the natural world that drives my photography. All of the photographs on this site were taken in the United States and Canada.
Where we will be: June 28 through September 7 Windham Civic Center, Windham, NY: 28 photographs hanging for the summer July 24, 2010 9am-4pm
(rain or shine) August 7, 2010 rain date
August 8, 10am-4pm August 14, 2010 Opening
Reception, 5pm-7pm-, 8/15, 1pm-5pm August 21 & August 22, 2010
10am-5pm August 28, 2010 11am-5pm September in the City Art Fair - September
1st, 8th,15th,22nd and 29th September 11 & September 12, 2010
10am-4pm September 25, 2010 10am-4pm
October 23 & October 24, 2010 10am-4pm November November 20 9am-5pm,
November 21, 2010 10am-3pm November 27, 2010 10am-4pm November 28, 2010 10am-4pm December 4 10am-5pm &
December 5, 2010 11am-4pm
Where we've been: Saturday, September 29th, 2009 Mountain Top Historical Society campus, Rt. 23A Haines Falls, NY under the big tent. Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY under the tent in front of the bookstore. Saturday and Sunday, October 10th & 11th, 2009 Autumn Affair, Windham, NY, place to be determined. Saturday & Sunday August 15th & 16th, 2009 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Rhinebeck NY in the hanger on the flightline. Saturday & Sunday, August 1st & 2nd, 2009 3rd Annual Batavia Kill Stream Celebration, Ashland NY under the big tent. Phantasma gallery 5424 Main St. Windham NY July 3rd through August 27th Ulster Savings Bank, Windham NY -31 photographs on exhibit Saturday, June 6th thru July 27th, 2009 Green County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY Gallery - 2 photographs, juried show. Saturday, April 11th thru May 24th, 2009 Green County Council on the Arts, Windham, NY Gallery - 3 photographs
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The photographs contained in this website are the original work of Larry Gambon. All of the photographs were taken within North America (United States and Canada). In many cases, the location of the subject is noted in the annotations that accompany each photograph.
There are 4 galleries: Landscapes,
Animals,
Black and White
and Other.
The landscape gallery contains photographs of lakes,
streams,
mountains,
valleys,
waterfalls and
landmarks.
All four seasons, summer, fall,
winter and spring
are represented, though not in any particular order. When shooting landscapes,
besides looking for exceptional vistas, I try to give each shot a composition
that makes the subject matter speak to the viewer. That seems to work most
of the time. A picture may be worth a thousand words but there are times when
pictures and words completely fail to convey a landscape. The grandeur of
some places are just beyond explanation.
The Animals gallery covers a lot of
ground but in reality barely scratches the surface of the animal kingdom.
Birds, mammals,
fish, bugs
and reptiles are represented, but some are
more prevalent than others, mainly because I try to shoot what I can get at
or, more importantly to me, what I like. I have scuba dived in the past but
not as a photographer, so my sea creatures are very few and far between. I
do not like bugs, of any kind. You will see bugs
in the gallery. Butterflies are cute, so I have 2 shots of Swallowtails.
I also have a ladybug, which can be cute, but,
when swarming, are downright disgusting. I also have a shot of two Japanese
beetles doing the horizontal hula. I definitely do not like them (especially
since they were doing their thing on the Basil I was growing) but they survived
to live another day. Also have a huge grasshopper from Florida that is actually
beautiful in a creepy sort of way. Brrrrrrr!
On the mammal side I have shots of grizzly
bears, black bears,
mountain lions, moose,
elk, big
horned sheep, mountain
goats, bison (or American buffalo), prong
horned antelope, deer, coyotes,
foxes, prairie
dogs and ground squirrels.
Birds and raptors including great horned
owl, great grey owl, great
egret, red tailed hawk, barred
owl, Harris hawk, barn
owl, a kestrel, a peacock,
hummingbirds, what I believe is a chukka,
a duck, swan,
pelicans, a chickadee
(my favorites) and some sort of sparrow.
Reptiles include an alligator, toad
or frog and a rattlesnake.
Water loving animals include dolphins, jellyfish
and a hammerhead shark (which I have
seen in the Atlantic Ocean from a distance of about 4 feet and hope to never,
ever see again).
Black & White & Then Some: I love black & white photography. When
digital photography entered the mainstream I knew it would have a revolutionary
effect on my work. If you just want to use a little
color? No problem. Want to tone down the red, or the blue, or green?
It is almost done before you know it. There are no holds barred in this gallery
and I expect to be putting much more up in the near future.
Other: This is work I cannot categorize. For the time being I am going to
be parking there shots that I do not have enough of to dedicate an entire
gallery to. Some of the photographs are happy accidents, unexpected results
and one of-a-kinds, though some have many similar shots but I am not just
so sure if there is an interest in seeing them.
For instance, I have several hundred aircraft photographs stored away. I did
an entire series on Nose Art (the art on WWII aircraft).
I have been to half a dozen air shows over the past 5 years and taken photographs
at every one.
I have hundreds of automobile shots. Hundreds of flowers and trees. Ghost
towns? Been to a bunch of those. Caves! Been to at least a dozen! And trains!
Plenty of old trains. Heck, I could have an entire hummingbird gallery with
several hundred shots.
Well, anyway, this whole spiel is a cleverly disguised attempt to get as many
keywords on my front page as humanly possible so the search engines might
find me. Hope you like what you see. Thanks for stopping by.
_Larry Gambon
All photographs are copyright, Larry Gambon. No photograph
may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, republished, manipulated, altered,
transmitted, or distributed in any way without Larry Gambon's written permission
and a payment of a fee or other arrangement. These images are NOT ROYALTY
FREE and are NOT WITHIN the PUBLIC DOMAIN. All photographs are the exclusive
intellectual property of Larry Gambon and are protected by U.S. and international
copyrights.