La Jolla Horizons 2021-2022
“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.”
I have completed several Seascape projects over the years (see multiple Sections in this website) using a variety of cameras (4x5 inch view camera, various digital cameras, and a pinhole camera). The common element for these projects has been the use of time-lapse photography to capture images of sea, horizon and sky. With the camera aperture open for minutes at a time, waves and clouds are softened as these move during the exposure leaving only the horizon as a sharp line. The San Diego Union Tribune (August 20, 2099), reviewing a gallery show at The Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, described the effect: “The view is wide, the colors almost ghostly. . . Clouds and sea appear as soft as cotton.”
In La Jolla Horizons I have emphasized the horizon by adopting the 1:2 (height:width) aspect ratio that I had used previously with 620 transparency film shooting two adjacent frames of film at a time. For La Jolla Horizons, this has been achieved by cropping the digital images from the 3:4 aspect ratio provided by the Hasselblad H6D100c (100MPx). The Hasselblad for these images was outfitted with a 300mm lens and a dark-grey, neutral-density filter.
These images are available printed on Fuji Flex color photographic paper mounted on aluminum composite material (“ACM”) and protected with a 3-mil matte laminate. The images are dominantly displayed in 3x6 feet format. Smaller formats are available, for example 2x4 feet.
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29 November 2021 at 1638 hrs
29 November 2021 at 1642 hrs
29 November 2021 at 1700 hrs
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30 November 2021 at 1630 hrs
5 December 2021 at 1635 hrs
7 December 2021 at 1707 hrs
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10 December 2021 at 1641 hrs
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16 December 2021 at 1633 hrs
17 December 2021 at 1738 hrs
18 December 2021 at 0612 hrs
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Christmas Day 2021 at 1709 hrs
New Year's Eve 2021 at 1651 hrs
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2 January 2022 at 1701 hrs
2 January 2022 at 1738 hrs