A Good Day Under the Crazies
© 2012 BARBARA VAN CLEVE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
on digital images must be exercised with restraint, but I am something of a purist.
Do you have a favorite photograph you can tell us about? The first significant photograph I made when I was around 15 is "Ground Blizzard." I was with my father on a hunting pack trip in the Crazies and of course I carried my trusty Brownie Box camera which Mom and Dad gave me when I was 11. We camped in a lovely little green glade by the headwaters of the South Fork of Big Timber Creek. The next morning we woke up to over 1½ feet of snow. Soon the wind came up and the snow started again, becoming a true ground blizzard. I asked Dad to wait before heading home so I could make the photograph. Years later when I learned about archival storage of neg- atives and prints, I sorted through everything and never could find the negative but I did find one print. I had that print copied onto a 4x5 piece of sheet film and that is what I have always used to make prints from. The result is a slightly soft non-photographic looking image. I really like it and think that it is a unique and beautiful image of nasty weather and a time when we really used horses.
What five words best describe you?
Five words that I think describe me: A driven, compassion- ate, open-minded, authentic, friendly, photographic artist.
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