Wide Views

Mike Slade, who has been teaching the still life photography class at BYU, approached me about participating in an exhibit with him. He had a call for entry from anyone that created images in a panoramic format. He told me that the idea for this show was spurred on by his work which was being printed as 7x17 inch images, and a selfish desire to see other photographers images and to see how his work fit into the larger genre of panoramic photography.

It also intrigued me by an additional concept that he had for the show. He wanted the photographers who submitted to also see the collected work so as part of submitting work to the show he asked each photographer to also find a venue to exhibit the show. This enabled the show to be a traveling exhibit that potentially could visit all over the globe. All prints where not to be matted or framed to further aid in the nomadic nature of the show.

Even with the earliest participants submitting he already had images that were out of this world. (No really, one was taken on Mars by the Mars Rover and another was from the Moon taken during the Apollo 17 mission.) The first exhibit is currently up at the Twain Tippets Gallery in Logan, UT and will move to the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City the first of February. More participants have already submitted and hopefully many more venues will appear as well. You can visit the website hosting the work *here*.

Here is the image that I submitted. It is from my Utah Lake project and can be seen in context with other images on my website and also on a separate post on this blog.