Join Miranda Gatewood on an Outdoor Photo Safari Photo Shoot sponsored by the North Shore Pubic Library on Friday, Aug. 23 from 10 am to 1 pm. Free. Essential photo instruction with personalized attention. Bring your camera, provide your own transportation. We will meet at the surprise location in the images above (the library will give you location and directions once you register at 631-929-4488). Non-cardholders are welcome. Registration a must.
History is in the Details
Carved in barnwood and later used in this interior renovation of an Eastern Long Island, NY farm was a simple inscription: R.E.T. 1903, with a flourish. It was the hand of the original owner, R.E. Tuttle (a.k.a. Tuthill), an early family name in this region.
Pictured is Jim Naples of East Bay Builders, Inc. From the available barnwood and original structures, Naples preserved and showcased so many of these details, preserving so much history.
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Treasure Map
Outdoor Photo Trek, Historic Greenport, NY
Greenport, Long Island, NY, location of this week’s “Outdoor Photography Trek” with Miranda Gatewood. Sign up for photography instruction and fun; learn the art of photography while enjoying different weekly tours! Sponsored by East End Arts
Awosting Falls in Summer
In Minnewaska State Park Preserve, located in the Hudson Valley’s Shawangunk Mountains, this is the Peters Kill, a shallow stream that drops about 65 feet over a rock ledge. It’s known as Awosting Falls.
Last Outdoor Photo Trek of June
This Wednesday, our Outdoor Photo Trek class will tour one of my favorite spots–Greenport, NY. This is the last class of the 4-part session sponsored by East End Arts and we’ll visit the places where I took these images–all within one square mile. If you think of photography as the art of exclusion (think cropping) then the smallest spaces become little universes of detail. Sign up for the more in the next session, a guided tour of incredible landscapes and waterscapes of Eastern Long Island. May the light guide you!
Next Stop…
Each Wednesday early evening I take a group of photographers out in a field class called “Outdoor Photo Trek.” There are four classes in a session through East End Arts, Riverhead, and we have all manner of photographers–and a filmmaker–with us. Surprising them with the location where the next class will meet has become part of the fun. But this time, rather than tell, I’ll show.
It’s Pink! Greenport 2019 Cherry Blossom Festival
The Third Annual Cherry Blossom Festival–a one-square mile walk–explodes with the color pink from May 1 through May 15, 2019 in the historic Long Island whaling village of Greenport, NY.
Outdoor Photo Treks, a class I am conducting every Wednesday from May 8 through May 29 through East End Arts, will make this the first stop of two-hour field adventures open to all levels of photographers and filmmakers.
The Village of Greenport Tree Committee offers a color-coded map to view the bounty of different species of trees in the height of their bloom, including Kwanzan Cherry, Pear, Snow Goose Cherry, Sargent Cherry, Okame Cherry, Yoshino Cherry and Crabapple trees. Maps for a self-guided tour are provided by the Floyd Memorial Library, Village Hall and the Carousel as well as some participating restaurants and retailers.
Map courtesy of Greenport Village. Photos ©Miranda Gatewood.
How Photography Reveals Who We Are
Long Exposure & Night Photography and Outdoor Photography Treks are two of the field classes I am teaching through East End Arts this season. Whenever I take a class out to a spectacular eastern Long Island location to create images, it gives me great pleasure to watch women entitle themselves with opportunity and awaken to their own vision with such passion. They are defining their success on their own terms.
Thirty Seconds
“We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole.”
— Sheperd Doeleman, EHT Director and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. during a press conference on April 10, 2019 describing seeing something for the first time: a black hole photographed through a telescope.
In honor of today’s news–the first photograph through a telescope of a Black Hole–this gallery of images have one thing in common: to see the unseeable, they all required thirty-second-long exposures.
As part of the homework I gave my Long Exposure and Night Photography class at East End Arts, Riverhead, NY, I, too, did the assignment (see the above image of the road) and here are the unusual results. Low light/long exposure photography can reveal what was previously unseeable, like a nocturnal wonderland of color shifts, contrast, noise and the digital version of film’s reciprocity failure, all of which is not visible in daylight.
MIRANDA GATEWOOD 