La Jolla Horizons 2021-2022

“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.”

W. Eugene Smith

I have completed several Seascape projects over the years (see multiple Sections in this website) using a variety of cameras (4x5 inch view camera, various digital cameras, and a pinhole camera).  The common element for these projects has been the use of time-lapse photography to capture images of sea, horizon and sky.  With the camera aperture open for minutes at a time, waves and clouds are softened as these move during the exposure leaving only the horizon as a sharp line.  The San Diego Union Tribune (August 20, 2099), reviewing a gallery show at The Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, described the effect: “The view is wide, the colors almost ghostly. . . Clouds and sea appear as soft as cotton.”

In La Jolla Horizons I have emphasized the horizon by adopting the 1:2 (height:width) aspect ratio that I had used previously with 620 transparency film shooting two adjacent frames of film at a time.  For La Jolla Horizons, this has been achieved by cropping the digital images from the 3:4 aspect ratio provided by the Hasselblad H6D100c (100MPx).  The Hasselblad for these images was outfitted with a 300mm lens and a dark-grey, neutral-density filter.

These images are available printed on Fuji Flex color photographic paper mounted on aluminum composite material (“ACM”) and protected with a 3-mil matte laminate.  The images are dominantly displayed in 3x6 feet format.  Smaller formats are available, for example 2x4 feet.