Updates

Greetings, everyone.  Thank you for visiting my site.  I again  have not updated this blog recently, and for that I apologize.  But life has been busy and exciting and always full of new adventures.

Thank you to those who visited my show at the Tyrone Irish Heritage Festival held way back in, you guessed it, March.  My “Images of  Ireland” exhibit showcased photographs of my two visits to Ireland (featuring many photos from this site) as part of the festivities and was hosted by the Tyrone Area Historical Society and their wonderful museum.  Thank you to all who assisted with the exhibit, and thank you to the Tyrone Daily Herald for the great article about my work. 

I am excited to have the amazing fortune to visit Ireland again this year and will be living there for several months.  I will be sure to take pictures, of course.

In other news, one of my recent poems has been published by the Bijou Poetry Review, and you can view it here:  http://bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/.  The poem, “Burning,” was written just a few weeks ago specifically with the journal in mind.

I make no promises on the date of my next post, so I apologize in advance for its tardiness.  Thank you again for your visit and best wishes!

Changes

Hello, everyone.  Thank you for your visit to my site. Past visitors will notice some changes.  Specifically, I am currently in the process of expanding my photography section to include more photos.  You will also notice that each photo has a watermark.  As an academic, I am very concerned about plagiarism, and I have learned that my “St. Mary’s Cemetery” photo is very popular online.  I do not mind if my images are used in certain ways, such as for presentation purposes, for instance (like if someone needs photos from Dingle for a presentation), only if someone else claims them as their own.  To that end, rather than disabling the ability to copy my images, I have implanted my signature on each one.  This watermark signature is much like the signature that I affix to the mat under the bottom right hand of a photo.  If you have seen them displayed and/or purchased one, you know I sign only with a small, penciled, “Christian.”

Other changes are forthcoming, so please bear with me while I experiment with different looks and formatting and add new photos.

Thank you.

Darkroom Gallery

So it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted.  Life gets busy, you know.

Anyway, four of my photographs have been selected for the Champlain Valley Photo Slam, which opens today and runs until June 17th at the Darkroom Gallery, 12 Main St, Essex Junction.  Join us for an opening reception tomorrow, Friday the 3rd from 5:00-7:30.  View selected photos here:  http://www.darkroomgallery.com/.  Thanks to all those who submitted photos and congratulations to those whose photos were selected for exhibition.

In other photographic news, in August of 2010, I entered four photos into competition at the Champlain Valley Fair.  Two photos won awards:  “Dick Mack’s” in the Travel category and “Puddle” in the Children at Play category.

Currently, a group of my photos is hanging in the halls of Vermont Adult Learning in St. Albans through the next couple of months.

Thanks to everyone who has/will attend/ed these events.

Thank You

A huge thank you to everyone who made the St. Paul’s show a great success.   Thanks to those who attended the reception and/or happened upon the show throughout the month.   Thanks especially to
Ernie Hathaway, who curated the show and expressed the hope I would show at St. Paul’s again in the future.

Thanks also to those who viewed my photographs at the Champlain Valley Fair, in particular the anonymous purchaser of “Ethan Allen in Winter.”   I hope you’re enjoying it.  To those who missed the Fair, I do plan to exhibit again next year.

St. Paul’s Cathedral Show

My photographic collection “Passages and Paths” will be exhibited at St. Paul’s Cathedral on the corner of Battery and Cherry streets in Burlington during the month of September, mainly Mondays through Fridays from 9:00-5:00.  Below is the information about the collection.

 

Passages and Paths:  a collection of photographs of doors, entrances, roads, and walkways—transitionary spaces created to allow movement from one point to another

          “Passages and Paths” is a collection of photographs of doors, entrance ways, corridors, lanes, and roads—spaces created to allow movement from one point to another.  As transitional spaces, these structures serve as metaphors for life’s points of transition in which one self gives way to the next.  Perhaps the proverbial door of opportunity, as in “Dick Mack’s,” is warm and inviting, or the path is a chilling corridor, as in “Eastern State.”  At other times, like in “Blasket,” the entrance is simply blocked.  Often, as in “Road to Cloghane,” the path bends away and offers only a glimpse of what lies ahead.  These transitional spaces can even present multiple possibilities, as some photos depict more than one path or passage and, like in “Lime Kilns,” what lies behind each door can be frustratingly elusive. 

          This elusiveness is a common theme of transitional spaces:  the mystery of what lies on the other side of the door or what is waiting down the path.  In our lives and in these photographs, too, there is an element of curiosity and secretiveness, of an inability to fully know what is waiting at that next point. 

          No matter which paths or passages we have taken, we can all relate to the unifying human experience of life’s transitional spaces.  The photographs in this collection, then, serve not only as literal representations of physical transitional spaces, but perhaps more importantly as a commemoration of the points in each of our lives that have served to transport us from one stage to the next.

Healthy Living Show

I just wanted to send a thank you to all those who made it to my show at the Healthy Living Cafe in South Burlington from mid-November through mid-December.  The show featured 17 of my pieces organized on the theme of silence.  Here is the accompanying description of that show, which was entitled “Grasping Silence”:

            From the windswept mountain summit to the dusty, abandoned corridor of a crumbling prison, from a medieval monument or a closed seaside cafe to leaves waiting to fall from the tree, all of these photographs say the same thing:  nothing.  Each captures a moment of silence, a place and point in time enveloped by stillness.  But these photos do not depict an absence.  We think of silence as a lack, as just a gap between sounds, but what is not said is often more full of meaning that what is.  Collectively and separately, these photos offer a hushed presence that attempts to capture and understand the ineffable significance of silence.

beCAUSE Craft Fair

Thanks to all who attended the beCAUSE Craft Fair on March 21st at St. Mike’s College in Colchester, VT.  The event featured local artisans and crafters who donated at least 50% of their proceeds to charities.  A special thanks to those who purchased my photos in support of Kids on the Block Vermont.  I was able to donate nearly 100% of my profits to this most worthy cause and had a lot of fun in the process.  Hope to see you there next year!  Stop by and say hi.