This morning, while pulling together some images for a submission, I came across this image again. I remember a Platinum print of this image hung in the kitchen of our old house. There is a couple of stories there, but not for the site. Thought I’d share the image again this morning.
I need to get my panoramic images back on the site.
This image is of Helen W. on her farm from a session from 2016. One of the horses in the background was watching me and the big camera.
This is one of my best selling 8×20 images. This image was made as part of One Day in the Life of the Hudson, a shoot and show in 1992/1993 sponsored by the Hudson Highlands Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY.
This photograph later turned into one of my best selling images at the Robin Rice Gallery, in New York City.
In 1991 I wanted to test out a larger format then the 8×10 that I had been contact printing. So I picked up a Korona 8×20 Banquet Camera. The focusing bed on the Korona was not in great shape, so I pulled the back off the camera and placed it on a Raja 8×10 focusing bed.
The new camera did not fold after the modification but it was solid enough to use. I really didn’t want to spend much money on a format I wasn’t sure I was committed to. Four years later I had fallen head over heals in love with the format and picked up a Wisner 8×20 camera.
This was one of my early adventures out with the Korona/Raja 8×20 camera. There was something about the format that kept drawing me in.