By Jim Stanford on October 4, 2007
There hasn’t been much to read here this week because I’ve been participating in the Photography at the Summit workshop at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
It’s hard not to get totally immersed in the lectures, critiques and shooting.
Chasing the early light and downing a few cocktails at the Silver Dollar Bar late at night will wear a photographer out, too.
This is an image that caught my eye. With the majority of the 50 or so students in town to shoot pretty pictures of wildlife, leave it to a Jackson Hole native to give a different take.
The photo was taken by Scotty Craighead, a senior at Jackson Hole Community School. After watching techie wiz Dave Black give a presentation on light painting, Craighead and his friends promptly went out and did their own.
Beneath a tangled nest of bleached white hair reminiscent of Doc from Back to the Future, Craighead has a head full of creative ideas. It was amusing, after looking at dozens of pics of a moose’s ass or out-of-focus antelope, to have this LED rendition of Christmas reindeer pop up on the screen.
Craighead knows a bit about wildlife, being the scion of a family of famous biologists and none-too-shabby photographers. He stood in front of the camera north of town and drew with keyring flashlights during a long exposure.
The News&Guide is a longtime sponsor of the workshop and traditionally runs a spread of images produced during the week, so look in next week’s paper for more of the students’ work, which has improved greatly.
I’ve been focusing on Jackson residents at work. In fact, I have to get up in just a few hours to chronicle an early-morning baker.
Posted under art, photography
Leave it to Scotty. When he was five years old, I went to take a picture of him, with his ski’s and he said,
“No, the other way, I want my picture in front of the Tetons.” He did a great job. Kay