Winter Trees 2011
The idea for a series of folios celebrating winter trees had been with me for a long, long time — since my earliest days in photography. At long last, in 2008, the series commenced. The intention was to produce one folio each year.
This year, Boreas (the Greek God of Winter) must have been feeling particularly spry. These three folios were photographed and produced from a singular and spectacular morning storm.
Causland Memorial Park occupies a one-block square not far from the center of our small town. Its varied and numerous trees gathered the large snowflakes for a brief pause on their way earthbound. Atop each and every limb and twig an outline of white grew, poised, balancing, waiting. Mid-morning arrived with a stiff winter wind. The snow crystals first blew off the twigs, then the branches, then the limbs. Each gust created a burst of cascading snow, driven down in small avalanches.
By late afternoon, it was over and the winter trees were once again black outlines against a grey sky.
Winter Trees Folios IV, V, & VI
Each folio has 5 individual, unbound prints
- Folio sizes 8x10½"
- Embossed, die-cut art paper enclosures
- Five images each approximately 7x9"
- Four-page, folded text section includes a title page, text page with a poem, project description and colophon
- Printed on an Epson 4880 using Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308
- Signed, open edition
- First edtion, first printing March 2011.
The introductory price for each folio is $50.
The first 50 of each folio will be sold at the introductory price. After that, the regular price will be $75. All prices plus shipping and handling.
All images and additional details can be found in these links:
The Winter Trees IV folio includes 5 split-toned images
The Winter Trees V folio includes 5 split-toned images
The Winter Trees VI folio includes 5 color images
Free PDF Monograph
All three of this year's Winter Trees folios are available in a single, unified PDF monograph, available in two formats. Both of these versions of this monograph are available for free download.
Available as an Adobe Reader Monograph and as an iPad Monograph from the downloads page.
This first edition PDF monograph was released in March 2011.