Things Are Looking Down: The Show

The title could well be a comment on the current state of American and international affairs, but — accurate though it may be — is in this case the title of my first solo photography show at an actual art gallery.  I first posted about it here almost exactly a year ago (on January 19, 2019 to be exact) shortly after I was offered the show, and now it has come to pass.

Readers of this blog come from over a dozen countries; realistically, only readers local to me (near Annapolis, Maryland) might visit the exhibit, so I am hereby saving you enormous expense and inconvenience by posting the photos here.

The title of the show comes from the fact that it comprises entirely drone photos, a medium I’ve gotten heavily into over the past two years and which now heavily influences my travel photography. You’ve seen quite a few of these already in previous blog posts. So here I am with my ego on full display:

…and here is a panorama of part of the gallery, shortly after we finished hanging the photos. (You can see some debris on the left, plus a glimpse through the doorway of more photos hanging out in the hallway.) At the right hand edge of the panorama you can see a blue video screen; it plays a continuous 8-minute loop of short video clips from some of my drone flights.

And here is a 4 1/2-minute video walkthrough of the show itself:

There are 29 images in all, all printed on metal (aluminum with a semi-gloss finish): 10 from the local area, 8 from Hawaii, and 11 from Iceland. And here they are, in convenient scroll-able form:

Hawaii

Big Island: “End of the World” near Kona

Big Island kayakers

A raft of kayaks

Upolu Point windmill, northernmost point of the Big Island

Waipi’o Valley, Big Island

Kealakekua Bay Marine Reserve and Captain Cook Memorial, Big Island

Hapuna Beach on the Kona coast of the Big Island

Hanauma Bay, most popular snorkeling spot on Oahu, not far from Honolulu

Iceland

Unusual clear skies on the northeast part of the Ring Road

Nearby snowcapped hills in September

A river blue with suspended silica. This photo won an Honorable Mention in the Washington Post 2019 Travel Photography Contest

Same river, looking downstream towards the Arctic Ocean

Same river, looking upstream and catching the glint form the sun

Fjords at low tide at Borgarnes

Highway crossing the Borgarnes fjord

The Hverfjall cinder cone, nearly 400 m (1300′) high

“Pseudocraters”, actually huge popped lava bubbles, at Lake Myvatn

Face and tongue of icemelt of the Vatnajokull Glacier

A lonely road in eastern Iceland

Annapolis and Environs

Downtown Annapolis, looking west. The complex on the right is the US Naval Academy.

Downtown Annapolis, looking east towards the Chesapeake Bay

One of the many marinas in or near downtown Annapolis

Snowy farm near sunset, about 5 km from home

Snowy farmhouse

Snow-covered field, with a little Impressionism applied

Beverly Triton Beach, on the Chesapeake Bay

An ice-clogged estuary at Kent Narrows, at the northern end of the Chesapeake

More ice at Kent Narrows

Southern end of Kent Island near the northern end of the Chesapeake, an area called “Hollicut’s Snooze” for some odd historical reason having nothing to do with taking a nap

That’s the entire show, in digital form. Our next outing will be a tornado-chasing expedition will be to the Texas-Oklahoma border in mid-May. Our hope is to find a twister and get close enough for some exciting photography while remaining far enough away to avoid too much excitement. If we’re successful you’ll see the results here.