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Black Friday Updates

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I may continue to post a few more Black Friday updates today. This one might interest some of my readers:

Craft & Vision is offering 50% off their whole photography eBook collection, including Michael Frye’s eBook Light & Land: Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom. Or you can get a $40 gift certificate for $20. All these discounts are today only. Michael also now also has iPhone and iPad versions of his Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite app.

And, this one at B&H:

The Canon G12 camera has been reduced to $379.00. We own one of these as our “stick in the pocket and take anywhere” camera, but it also produces really fine image quality and can even shoot in raw mode.

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The Nocturnes 20th Anniversary Photography Exhibit

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The Nocturnes 20th Anniversary Photography Exhibit
Opening Reception: November 9, 2011, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Free

Exhibit runs through December 3rd.

Harvey Milk Photo Center
50 Scott Street, Duboce Park
San Francisco, California 94117
(415) 554-9522

“In 1991, ten pioneering Bay Area photographers displayed their work as “The Nocturnes” in a curated show on night photography. Twenty years later, The Nocturnes are still having “full moon gatherings”, educating new photographers, and enjoying the camaraderie of like-minded artists that realize that some of the best photos are taken after the sun sets. This curated exhibit is a retrospective on the work of some of the most well-known night photographers as well as those just getting started.” (From the event web site.)

I’m pleased to say that two of my prints will be included in this show. If you are a San Francisco Bay Area night photographer, a fan of night (and other) photography, or happen to be visiting the area, I invite you to drop in and see some wonderful night photography by a diverse and talented group of photographers. Maybe I’ll see you at the opening reception on November 9!

Community, Events

Photographer Mark Citret at De Anza College

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Photographer Mark Citret is presenting a free public talk on his work at De Anza College in mid-November. I invite San Francisco Bay Area photographers and photography fans to join me in attending!

Wednesday, November 16
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Room A-11
De Anza College
Cupertino

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Commentary, Community, Night Photography

Night Photography Article at SFGate

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Updates:

  1. I can’t believe I neglected to include the link to the article! See “Photographers Find Light in the Dead of Night“
  2. After I posted the link to this article earlier today I got word that two of my prints have been selected for inclusion in the show. Hope to see some of you Bay Area photographers at the reception!

San Francisco’s SFGate web site has an article on night photography and especially on the history of the medium in the San Francisco Bay Area:

“Before this eccentric genre emerged here in the 1970s, only a handful of shutterbugs shot in the dark. At the turn of the 20th century, Alfred Stieglitz conjured images of an evanescent New York. In the 1920s and ’30s, Brassaï captured lustrous scenes of Paris a la nuit. And O. Winston Link glorified American modes of transportation against the backdrop of night in the 1950s.

But night photography didn’t become a codified style until a group of Northern Californian photographers (including Richard Misrach, Arthur Ollman and Jerry Burchard) started tackling nighttime as a major theme in their work.”

The Bay Area has been fortunate to be a bit of a hot spot for night photographers who have “gone over to the dark side,” and this continues. The Nocturnes, the Bay Area night photography group, is celebrating its 20th year with a series of exhibitions this year, including a recent show at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard (which is, in many ways, ground zero for area night photographers) and an upcoming event:

The Nocturnes 20th Anniversary Photography Exhibit: Reception 6:30 p.m. Nov. 9. Through Dec. 3. Free. Harvey Milk Photo Center, 50 Scott St., San Francisco. (415) 554-9522. harveymilkphotocenter.org.