Recommendations wanted for B&W Eastern North American landscapes

[Bill_1856]

The web is full of magnificant B&W landscape images from the Great American West, but (except for Clyde Butcher, whose work is truly unique) I can't find much eye candy from the East. Perhaps it's all those flat, white-out skies, and too many people and buildings everywhere. Anyhow, do you have any links to B&W photography to share?

[z_photo]

swamps of LA, smokies, west virginia mountains, vermont/new hampshire/maine, nova scotia, ...

[W K Longcor]

For starters -- Lechworth (sp??) State Park in New York State "The grand canyon of the east". Or practically any place along the coast.

[Bill_1856]

Yes, but what I want are LINKS to landscape photography web sites.

[ASRafferty]

Bill, Paul Wainwright's work might interest you... he and Ted had just started talking in April about doing something together in connection with Paul's meeting house project, the B&W landscapes are nice too, I think.

http://www.paulwainwrightphotography.com/portfolios_c.shtml

[John Kasaian]

http://washburngallery.org/index.php?

Nice LF aerials of Mt. Washington :)

[h2oman]

Maybe a bit too much like Butcher?:

http://www.danmontgomery.com/

I like his work.

[RichardRitter]

Yes, but what I want are LINKS to landscape photography web sites.

www.lg4mat.net
All east coast work.

[Bruce Barlow]

www.circleofthesunproductions.com.
All east coast work.

I've seen Brad Washburn's prints - they are fabulous!

[Bill_1856]

I'm glad that I asked. You folks have shown me some nice work. Thanks.

[Ken Lee]

Here's a few from Massachusetts (http://www.kenleegallery.com/html/landscapes/landscapesAll.html)

[Ken Lee]

I got a chance to meet Paul Wainwright (http://www.paulwainwrightphotography...folios_c.shtml) at the recent gathering at Amy and Ted's home, where he brought some of his Meeting House images to show and share. In addition to everything else, he's a terrific guy.

I think Dan Montgomery (http://www.danmontgomery.com/)'s photos are different from those of Clyde Butcher (http://www.clydebutcher.com/home.cfm). They are a bit more impressionistic perhaps. It makes for an excellent study, to compare and contrast their work, and the feelings that they evoke.

[Mark Sawyer]

Paul Strand set the early standard for north-eastern landscape photography, and Paul Caponigro for more recent work. Stieglitz did some beautiful work around Lake George.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Bill,,,

Reelfoot lake Tenn then over to Cade's Cove then hit the Blue ridge parkway and up

[Bill_1856]

Thanks, Steve. Any LINKS to B&W images from these areas?

[Bill_1856]

I think Dan Montgomery (http://www.danmontgomery.com/)'s photos are different from those of Clyde Butcher (http://www.clydebutcher.com/home.cfm). They are a bit more impressionistic perhaps. It makes for an excellent study, to compare and contrast their work, and the feelings that they evoke.

Thanks for showing me these, Ken.
Yes, his work is completely different from Clyde Butcher. He shoots like most of us (myself included) as images seen through a windowframe, while Butcher's images are intended to make one feel a part of the enviroment.

[keith english]

Ken, thanks for introducing me to Dan Montgomery's work. I have been a big fan of Butcher's for a while now. I just got back from the Orlando area (unfortunately working a conference and not able to get out and shoot; but it was 100 degrees anyway.) I couldn't help but notice the daily building thunder clouds that make such nice black-and-white images. Seems like here in Georgia, whenever I go out to shoot all I get is blank blue or white skys. I'd love to have that display of cumulous cloulds everyday to work with!

[Ken Lee]

He shoots like most of us (myself included) as images seen through a windowframe, while Butcher's images are intended to make one feel a part of the enviroment.

That's a very keen observation. I'm not much of a wide-angle shooter, perhaps that explains why. My shortest lens is a 150, and I rarely use it.

The interaction of the shapes within the image, with the frame itself, have always been important content to me. In many of the wide shots we see, the visual content is often found... elsewhere.

[Bill_1856]

[QUOTE=Ken Lee;376585 In many of the wide shots we see, the visual content is often found... elsewhere.[/QUOTE]
Ken, that's also a very keen observation.

[mrladewig]

Northeast Nature Photographers within NPN.

Link (http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vf20&ns=1&CGISESSID=9832666c5d572e5841e24dccc2995b96&u=30124)

Southeast Nature Photographers within NPN.

Link (http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vf22&ns=1&CGISESSID=9832666c5d572e5841e24dccc2995b96&u=30152)

Mid-Atlantic Nature Photographers within NPN.

Link (http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vf18&ns=1&CGISESSID=9832666c5d572e5841e24dccc2995b96&u=30469)

Joseph Rossbach shoots some nice stuff in the DC area.
http://www.josephrossbach.com/

It might not be the specific B&W work you're looking for, but there is plenty to shoot out there and a long history of photography.

[Bill_1856]

Thanks, mrladewig, I wasn't aware of this group.
I never did find any B&W on the various websites, but there was so much to look through.

[mrladewig]

No problem Bill.

There are avian and flora photographers in those groups, but I hope you'll get some ideas on locations.

I lived in DC and Key West, FL on the east coast while growing up. We would travel around to the Appalachians, civil war sites and often visited friends in South Carolina. It certainly isn't the same as the scenery that we have in the southwest, but there is plenty of beauty to be found outdoors there. The biggest problem in the east versus the west is that there is a much larger percentage of privately owned and developed land than there is here.

Mel-

[Ken Lee]

The biggest problem in the east versus the west is that there is a much larger percentage of privately owned and developed land than there is here.

In other words... Them dawgs is every where !

[Steve M Hostetter]

Thanks, Steve. Any LINKS to B&W images from these areas?

Bill,,,, No sorry no links but I may have a few Cade's Cove shots somehwere... It's a nice place to relax and unwind from a long trip ... Huge meadow in the middle of the Smokie Mountain Nation Park..
You'll find all types of subjects from rocky rivers to vast open grass land and you might see black bear..
Let me find a B&W from CC,,,here's one : 8x10" 300mm Goerz GR B&W Polaroid

[Bill_1856]

Bill,,,, No sorry no links but I may have a few Cade's Cove shots somehwere... It's a nice place to relax and unwind from a long trip ... Huge meadow in the middle of the Smokie Mountain Nation Park..
You'll find all types of subjects from rocky rivers to vast open grass land and you might see black bear..
Let me find a B&W from CC,,,here's one : 8x10" 300mm Goerz GR B&W Polaroid

Hi Again, Steve.
I grew up about 50 miles from there, but your excellent image is far better than anything that I've ever managed to get there. I don't remember seeing a road empty of traffic long enough to set up an 8x10 -- how did you do it?
Although I spent 4 years in med school in Memphis, I never managed to get up to Reelfoot Lake. Always been on my "someday" list though.
What are you going to do without 810 Polaroid?

[Steve M Hostetter]

Hi Again, Steve.
I grew up about 50 miles from there, but your excellent image is far better than anything that I've ever managed to get there. I don't remember seeing a road empty of traffic long enough to set up an 8x10 -- how did you do it?
Although I spent 4 years in med school in Memphis, I never managed to get up to Reelfoot Lake. Always been on my "someday" list though.
What are you going to do without 810 Polaroid?

Hi Bill,,, I stay on the gravel roads that are in the center of the Cove, that connect the main roads... Lots less traffic there
:cool:
Without Polaroid I may just have to re-learn film processing:eek: