Darren Clark Photography

Henry’s Fork at Warm Slough, ID 2012

This is one of my favorite types of place to photograph. It is beautiful, it is less than five miles from home, and it is tucked between housing developments, a highway, and agriculture. I can’t believe I haven’t discovered this place sooner. Hopefully it remains accessible. Most places like this eventually get developed. I can’t believe there are not “no trespassing” signs posted around the property yet. In the meantime.. I’m sure I’ll visit frequently.

North Fork of the Teton River, Sugar City, ID 2012

Brian and I are headed to San Francisco this week to attend the national Society of Photographic Education conference. It should be a good time. He talked me into riding with him instead of flying. It’s been pretty fun. He drives, I sleep etc.. We are spending ttonight in Reno at the Boomtown Hotel and Casino. When we arrived to check in there were pretty weird clouds in the sky. After we got back from dinner I couldn’t help but go out and photograph the highway with the foreground lit by the casino sign.

Weird Cloud in Hotel Parking Lot, Reno, NV 2012

Boomtown Hotel and Casino Sign, Reno, NV 2012

Landscape, Truckee River, and I-80, Reno, NV 2012

We got a nice little snow storm last night (maybe 3″). It’s not much, but this has been a mild winter, so we’ll take it. As it started to warm up this morning, it also started to get foggy. I ran out for a couple of hours this morning and made a few photographs. It was really a beautiful morning.

Subaru on Snowy Road, Rexburg, ID 2012

Birch, Beaver Dick Park, 2012

Birches, Beaver Dick Park, ID 2012

Clearing Fog on the Henry’s Fork, Beaver Dick Park, ID 2012

The Henry’s Fork Foundation approached me about using some images for their annual report. They published the report today and I’m really happy with the design and the use of the images. Here’s a screen shot of the front page. The report can be accessed here – http://www.henrysfork.org/annual-reports

Henry’s Fork Annual Report. Image – Harriman State Park, 2011

I’m teaching a few historical processes to a few students in an independent study situation this semester. Yesterday I demonstrated Salted Paper Prints. For you non-photo history types salted paper prints are among the earliest of the processes. Basically you paint salt water on paper, dry it, then paint silver nitrate on top of the dried salt water and you have a light sensitive piece of paper. You place a negative on top of the sensitized paper, expose it to UV light, and you end up with an image. Anyway, I haven’t been happy with many of my results in salted paper thus far, but I made a couple of tweeks to my negatives and am pretty happy how the demo prints turned out. Here are some scans.

Angler’s Lodge, Last Chance, ID 2010 (negative), 2012 salted paper print

Bear Gulch Overlook 2010 (negative), 2012 salted paper print

By the way, scanning some of these historical processes does seem to flatten out shadow detail, nevertheless I think you get an idea of the quality of the prints.

I’m taking/sitting in on a class this semester. The class is called Art 125 – Computer Art. I know very little (nothing really) about Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign. I’ve sort of wanted to learn a bit about those programs for a while. My hope is that I would be able to learn a bit about these programs by taking this class. It’s been a good experience and I’m learning quite a bit.

Here is an illustration I worked on this evening.

Tree Illustration 2012

The illustration was based on a photograph I posted to the blog a couple of weeks ago. Here it is -

This morning we woke up to that foggy, thick winter light that I like so much. It’s one of the few things that make the long cold winters bearable. We really haven’t had much of it this winter. Anyway, I took my time getting to work and made a few photographs.

Young Conifers in New Subdivision, Rexburg, ID 2012

Clearing Fog with Tree, Rexburg, ID 2012

We’ve had a really  mild winter so far. Today we got a little snow. There is nothing like the light in town during and shortly after snowfall (I’ve missed it). Anyway, I was happy to get out for a bit. I’m not convinced the photographs are very good, but I had a good time.

Pizza Hut Parking Lot, Rexburg, ID 2012

Neon-lit Tree, Rexburg, ID 2012

Snow Fence, Rexburg, ID 2012