Naturalperl_News_June_24, 2008
Time is flying and we have just realized that I already skipped two NaturalperlNews...
The free Photo walks at Brazos Bend State Park were on April 5, 2008 for Spider Lilies of the swampy area of the prairie, then on May 10, 2008 for wading birds of Elm Lake and Pilant Slough, and then on June 21, 2008 for plant close-ups. The weather was very hot, but we still found few interesting small things to photograph and enjoyed the outing. Laszlo continued to collect more soft focus images to his Nature Softies portfolio and worked on our Good friend Dion McInnis inspired “Wabi-Sabi” project. On July 5, 2008 Laszlo will be at the Nature Center to guide the visitors from 3-5 PM and after that as a 2nd part of the close-up walk, we will look for Passion Flowers, probably nearby the Prairie, back side of the overflow camping area. We may get some nice sunset shots too and will return to the parking area at dusk. Please bring your macro-, wide angle-, or telephoto lenses with extension tubes and a solid tripod. More info about Photowalks at Brazos Bend State Park: http://www.brazosbend.org/calendar/photowalk1.htm
The Texas Medical Center hosts several exhibitions at the Methodist Hospital (“Frozen Motion” by Jim Caldwell, Jeff Debase, Theresa DiMenno, John Clifton Dyes, Alexandra Nemeth, Rosalie O’Connor and Laszlo Perlaky at the Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine) and at Saint Luke’s Hospital corridors at 2nd, 1st and basement levels showing 9-image portfolios of Eleanor Brown, Odin Clay, Laszlo Perlaky, Margaret Price just name a few. The newest exhibition just opened at the Betty Burgdorf Sky bridge Gallery few weeks ago showing Eleanor Brown’s breathtaking landscape photographs taken at Big Bend National Park, TX.
The Art Guild of Rural Texas organized 9th Art Walk, juried Fine Art Show (May 3-4, 2008) in beautiful Fayetteville hosted about 50 artists and the art works, the booth and overall impressions of the presentation were judged by artist William Anzalone. Awards for Photographic Art: Best of Show (Art Strokes, photography) Best of 2D (Ryan Williams, photography), Judge’s Choice (Laszlo Perlaky, photography). Congratulations to all of the winners! http://www.texasartwalk.org/index.asp
For almost fifty years Anzalone’s paintings were represented by Meredith Long Gallery in Houston. However, Anzalone has chosen to present his 2008 works at The Gallery at Round Top. William Anzalone’s atmospheric paintings are on view until July 7, 2008. Address: 203 East Austin, Round Top, TX. More info: http://www.thegalleryatroundtop.com
We had a great time during our invitational Naturalperl exploratory workshop series photographing nesting brown pelicans, white ibises, terns, laughing gulls, oystercatchers, tricolored herons, snowy egrets and little blue herons. We had total of four outings with Captain Mike’s fishing boat to a no-name oyster shell Island in the West Bay, where we photographed the colony nesting bird behavior. We discussed the recorded images and compiled the observations on our two discussion meetings.
Please check the Programs of the Houston Center for Photography (HCP), you will find lot of interesting and valuable exhibitions, seminars, workshops, field trips or digital lab classes. Laszlo just presented on May 15 and 17, 2008 his two-parts Light metering workshop and on June 12, 2008 talked about lenses. The next HCP workshop by Laszlo will be on June 26, 2008: “Seeing color and color management” and on July 10, 2008: “Photographic filters and digital filter plug-ins”. Please check the available spots at HCP, those fill up fast. More workshops and fieldtrips: http://www.hcponline.org
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 contest is the world’s largest nature photography competition. Last year there were 32,318 entries from 78 countries. The judging is finished for the 2008 contest, but the result must remain unpublished until the exhibition will open at the Natural History Museum, London. I do not have many publishable info about the results, but I know that Edward Habgood, one of our Naturalperl workshop participants images and several images from Lexi and Laszlo were in the semi-final. The last year award winning images are on view at the Houston Museum of Natural Science until July 6, 2008. http://www.hmns.org/exhibits/special_exhibits/Wildlife_Photographer.asp
The Open Door Series Summer ’08 juried exhibition at The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake is open from June 12 – August 7, 2008. The submitted images for the exhibition were juried by long time Houston Bay Area artist Richard Wood. Congratulations to Houston Photographic Society members Tom Foster (“Young Vampire”and “A Brother Grief”), Lexi Nemeth (“Fence Fall Color Reflections”), Laszlo Perlaky (“Aspens at winter”); their photographs are on the show. More info: http://www.taaccl.org
We had a great new show opening at the Fill Your Cup Coffee Shop Gallery (1410 East Highway 90A, Suite 100, Richmond TX 77469) on June 20, 2008. Photographic Artists Jaimie ladysh, Lexi Nemeth and Laszlo Perlaky: “Colors of White Sand” collective images were photographed on January 31, 2007 at the same time at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. If you are nearby, just get a delicious coffee there and enjoy the exhibited images. If you wish to buy one of the exhibited images, please contact: Naturalperl@comcast.net
Laszlo is deeply in love with large format photography. He works hard on his dreamy, story telling self assignments and he started to organize his large format landscape photography workshops. If you are interested for large format (4x5) film based photography and would like to participate on Laszlo’s Naturalperl landscape workshops, please drop him a line: Naturalperl@comcast.net
See the Light! Laszlo of Naturalperl®.
