Mark Jaremko

Another Bay Area night photographer, Mark Jaremko, recently updated his website of night photographs. Like all night photographers, Mark is a great person to shoot with, and regularly produces some beautiful work. Mark likes to work on the "bleeding edge" of 35mm digital technology which gives him the ability to create super high resolution prints. It's always good to know someone who is taking higher resolution images than you are. It keeps your mind busy planning your "toy path" for the next few years.

(photo: Mark Jaremko)

In October, Mark will be participating in the Nocturnes gallery at the San Francisco Open Studios once again. He is also participitating in the Canvas Gallery's Open Studios preview running right now.

Canvas Gallery: John Vias

In October, a number of Nocturnes will participate in San Francisco Open Studios and display their work at the Fort Mason Center. This month, the Canvas Gallery in San Francisco will host a preview exhibition for this year's SF Open Studios. Night photographer John Vias will be one of the eight artists who was chosen for this show!

(photo: John Vias)

The show runs through August 20th. Unfortunately, due to a screwup on my part, I'm posting this after the reception. But you can still stop by and see the show. Canvas is located at 1200 - 9th Ave (at Lincoln), San Francisco, across the street from Golden Gate Park in the Sunset District.

"Summer Nights" Content

Tim Baskerville has posted an on-line gallery of the photographs that are included in the "Summer Nights" show at the Blue Plum Gallery (41 Arkansas St, San Francisco) through the month of August.

(photo: Mark Jaremko)

Obviuosly, the real prints look much better than the thumbnails. So, plan on coming to the reception/party on August 19th at 7pm.

"Summer Nights" at the Blue Plum Gallery

Seven photographers will be displaying night photographs at the Blue Plum Gallery (41 Arkansas St) in San Francisco from July 28 through the end of August. The show will include work by Marc Babsin, Tim Baskerville, Andy Frazer, Susanne Friedrich, Mark Interrante, Mark Jaremko and Michael Koerner.

(photo: Andy Frazer)

I dropped off my photographs this morning, and I was very impressed with the location: high ceilings, long walls and lots of floorspace. Unfortunately, I was one of the first people to drop off work and I had to rush back to my day gig, so I didn't have a chance to see what the other artists will be exhibiting.

The reception party will be Saturday night, August 19th at 7pm.

Susanne Friedrich

I've been shooting at night with Susanne Friedrich for about four years. I first met her on an overnight trip to Angel Island, sponsored by the Nocturnes. While most of the photographers were showing off their Hassleblad's and high-end 35mm cameras, Susanne was carrying around a pair of $20 Holgas (medium format "toy" cameras) wrapped up with electrical tape. Looking through a Holga lens is a bit like looking through the bottom of a glass Coke bottle. Their manufacturing defects are their charm.

(photo: Susanne Friedrich)

Although Susanne uses a Hasselblad for her professional work, she often uses the Holgas to create some beautiful night photographs with a pictorialist.

(photo: Susanne Friedrich)

Susanne is a professional portrait photographer and web designer. She has designed websites for many night photographers, including the Nocturnes and Lance Keimig's TheNightSkye.

How To Light Paint

Troy Paiva first got me interested in night light painting seven years ago. One of the most prolific light painters who credit Troy as an influence is Larrie Thomson of Canada. Today, I came across the following magazine article by Seam McCormick, who credits Larrie Thomson not only for his inspiration, but for actually taking him along on a night shooting trip and showing him how to do it (he also thanks Troy in the article for creating this niche artform).

(photo: Sean McCormick)

If you've never tried light painting at night, this article will be especially helpful because Sean explains exactly how many flashes he fired at each point in the subject (note: the article describes how he photographed an old truck and an old building, not the bridge ab0ve).

How to Be Creative

A few months ago I read an interesting article in Lenswork Magazine. The article was titled "How to Be Creative". It was written by work-at-home marketing/PR guywho is using his blog, The Gaping Void, to promote a small South African winery called Stormhoek.

(copyright Hugh MacLeod)

Aside from his interesting ideas about creativity, and how to reconcile your art with your "day gig", I found his whole blog and some of his marketing ideas to be fascinating. In fact, his ideas were the main reason that I began this blog. One of his beliefs is to give information away on a regular basis in order to build trust from your audience. That's why the creativity article is on-line, in its entirety.

(copyright Hugh MacLeod)

I would recomend any artist (even the most elite of artists: the night photographers) to read this article, and take some time to browse through Hugh's blog (and, just maybe, try his client's wine).