A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Taken this past weekend at Studio Nocturne 2011, Fort Mason Center, in San Francisco.

(From the desk of The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man)

A Call for Docentry . . .

We are just about ready for our Ninth Annual "Studio Nocturne" event (part of  SF Open Studios) held again at Fort Mason Center, Oct 22-23, 2011.

Did you know that we are looking for docents to help out (in 2 hour shifts, both days)? It's a fun, well attended social event and we need your help to keep things running smoothly and in a friendly, sociable manner.

We are trying to get people to commit to these 2 hour shifts:
11am - 1pm / 1 - 3pm / 2 - 4pm  or  4 - 6pm

Just let us know if you want to cover any of these, either day. Contact us directly at studio [at] thenocturnes [dot] com if you can free up some time this weekend, 

From all the artists participating in "Studio Nocturne" - http://www.studionocturne2011.com

 

"Studio Nocturne"

"Fortunately, art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world, endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."(Allen Ginsberg)

                         (Image by Tim  Baskerville)

Once again "Studio Nocturne" returns to Fort Mason Center. The Nocturnes will be hosting 10 photographers at Fort Mason, October 22 and 23. in Landmark Building ‘D,’ Ground Level. This is our ninth "Studio Nocturne" exhibit at Fort Mason. While this group of photographers can usually be found practicing their art under the full moon or city lights, they will again brave the daylight to show their work as part of San Francisco Open Studios 2011.

"Studio Nocturne" is always one of the larger groups of artists showing their work at Fort Mason, but there is plenty of other art to be seen there during San Francisco Open Studios as well. As in years past, visitors to "Studio Nocturne" will have an opportunity to purchase fine art photographs at studio prices. Visit http://www.studionocturne2011.com/ to see the roster of artists for this year’s event.

Why not come on out and have a look?

(From the desk of The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man)

A Rush Ranch Nocturne

Still a few spots left for our Return to Rush Ranch - Monday Sept. 12 starting at 4pm. Benefits the outreach and education programs of the Rush Ranch Educational Council. Details here - may be best to call us at the number listed, if interested . . .

From The [not so] Daily Nocturne

Portrait of the artist as a Nocturne

A follow-up to the previous post - this one by Shulee Ong, a student in my "Postcards from San Francisco" series of classes, offered by the Harvey Milk Photo Center - done during a visit to Chinatown on July  21st.

Production notes: for this relatively short night photo, a small, powerful Surefire G-2 flashlight was bounced off the wall to my right, with another flashlight used as fill light, front and center.

BTW, she got a well-deserved "A" for the class!

From The [not so] Daily Nocturne

Portrait of a Nocturne

At this year’s Night Photography Festival at Mono Lake, Instructor Scott Martin "felt compelled to make portraits of the photographers themselves instead of the ghost town [Bodie]."

On his Blog, he explains: "These are 1-2 minute exposures by moonlight where I’m adding light on the subject with a flashlight (not a flash!). Since I prefer side-lighting from two sides with a handheld flashlight, it was challenging for the subject to keep still during the light painting and throughout the rest of the exposure."

We know it was challenging - on both sides, the lens - but worth it! Click on the Blog link above to view some more of the "usual suspects." Enjoy . . .

From The [not so] Daily Nocturne

"Mare Island Nocturnes"

NightWork by Alumni of The Nocturnes NPy Workshops and frequent visitors to Mare Island at night.

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS: Sunday, August 14 from 2 to 4 pm at the Mare Island Historic Park Foundation Museum; 1100 Railroad Avenue, Mare Island

“Mare Island Nocturnes” features fine art photography, done at night, utilizing long time exposures, by photographers from all over the SF Bay Area, many on return nocturnal “tours of duty.”  Chris Rasmussen, a member of the Save Our Sail Advisory Group, and one of the Jurors of the exhibit, has described the exhibit as “A marvelous array of images demonstrating the stark beauty of Mare Island, its industrious past now locked up in a great stillness.” We hope the public will come see these images of a seldom-seen side of the former Mare Island Shipyard, and help celebrate The Nocturnes Twentieth Anniversary – and five years on Mare Island! A portion of proceeds from print sales benefits the Mare Island Historic Park Foundation and its preservation, education, and outreach programs.

From The [not so] Daily Nocturne

NPy (in five words or less)

"Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown."

From The [not so] Daily Nocturne

(Off to teach a class in Chinatown . . .)

Open the pod bay doors, HAL . . .

Nocturnes Alum (and SOS Advisory Group Co-Member) Chris Rasmussen emailed me the link to this great image (seen on the APOD site - previously mentioned a few times in this space) noting that he couldn't recall ever seeing a shot quite like it. We have to agree - most of the images we've seen on the site fall into the straight-forward documentation area, or astrophotography. This one, with the longer exposure and blurring due to movement, falls right into The Nocturnes domain.

("Ground Control to Major Tom") 

NPy (in five words or less)

Dimming of the Day

From The [not so ] Daily Nocturne

(Hardly strictly slowcore . . . )