March 3, 2015

Red Aura
Bozeman, Montana
2015

It’s not often that I find a scene with subtle color that I am really attracted to that also doesn’t work, albeit differently, in black and white. I tried converting this one to black and white and it just didn’t do anything for me at all.

I realized that this image reminded me of, and perhaps was heavily influenced by, some of Elliot Porter’s more subtle photos of tangled woodlands that I was really drawn to in the late 60s and 70s. Here are two examples:

Redbud Tree in Bottomland
Eliot Porter Photo
1968

Red Osier
Eliot Porter photo
1957