Once again, I will be tearing away from the familiar and immersing myself in a country and culture I know very little about, Colombia. The only plan is to enter the country and follow intuition for 6 weeks of exploration and adventure. A photobook and fine art prints will be produced during this trip, as well as “from the road” travel blogging.
We all allow ourselves to slowly become lulled into willing automatons to the point that we no longer notice the details of what’s going on around us. I have discovered that while traveling, I’m paying much closer attention to all the little details you normally tend to filter out when at home in familiar surroundings. That heightened state of awareness tends to inspire new vision and tends fuel and facilitate intense creative thought. You can get to this state of mind anywhere, even at home, but while traveling the potential to see the world from a completely new perspective is much greater.
This time it will be all about the shared experiences and images captured with updates for supporters and project exclusive ePublications. This will also be more about including the audience in a private, artistic journal. Not so much a travelog or documentary of the place, but more focussed on how the place inspires. There’ll be interesting images from the street, found objects, sketches, textures, sounds, etc. And any artwork all of those elements may inspire as well as first person point of view writing about anything the experience dictates.
In other words, this isn’t going to be a travel documentary about Colombia, but more of a moleskine-style collection of what resonates with me while I’m there.
After May 9th, the door will close and this blog will be only for the eyes of those who’ve backed this project and have a “virtual ticket”. Backers at all levels will be given a user name and password to login and view this section of the site.
In addition to exclusive access to this The Deep End: Colombia blog, there are great additional awards at each level! Get the details on how to reserve your virtual slot in my backpack HERE
Have recently published 2 new photo books on MagCloud and they are currently running a sale through Feb. 14th 2012. You can check out the previews and buy at the links below!
Every book I’ve ordered from them as been beautifully printed and heavy stock. I’ve added perfect binding to these as well.
Mexico Summer 2011 and DC + NYC 2011
Honored to have a second series of 7 photos featured on SevenDays-IN!
You can see the new series and a travel story from that trip HERE
Disfruta :)
Skip Hunt
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Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas
Skip Hunt Go West ebook PROMO!
For a LIMITED time, I’m selling the eBook PDF version of this book for $1.99
This is the same ebook selling on Amazon and Lulu for $3.99
And, this version has no DRM (digital rights management)
This is 112 pages of pure adventure in rich color and text!
Fine art photographer Skip Hunt of Austin, Texas traveled Westward via motorcycle in search of the exotic within the mundane. He found so much more!
This issue contains the entire set of chronicles from Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and Arizona.
What began as a curious wandering with no particular path or direction, became a powerful life-changing adventure.
Sometimes we must become lost before we can truly find our way.
Read some of the reviews of the printed Amazon version!
Got a nice little note from the Smithsonian Channel yesterday morning:
Dear Skip,
I’m very pleased to let you know your photograph was selected to be part of the half hour program “Smithsonian Spotlight: Photo Contest.” We don’t have an air date yet, but I wanted to let you know you’ll be part of it. I would also like to confirm the spelling of your name and last name for the credits, so how does this look?: Skip Hunt
About a year ago, a friend said to me “Skip, I think you’re a very good photographer… but, I gotta level with ya… your forte’ is NOT black and white and your b/w work does absolutely nothing for me. You should stick with color. That’s what you’re good at.”
This seemed harsh to me, but I appreciated his candor and honest opinion. I thought about it a good while and asked myself why I make images. At first I thought it was so that others would give me approval, but that wasn’t it.
Finally decided that it had more to do with a compulsion to explore color, texture, differences in light and shadow, patterns, etc… essentially all visual facets of reality and make images that resonated from my perspective. Why? I don’t know. But I do know that my goal is not to be deemed worthy by anyone.
So, I continued to make my color images AND my black and white images as well. Here are a few I made recently. For your’s and my pleasure. :-) More HERE
ps. I created a new site for myself that I hope to start using more and more for travel and everyday stuff. If you’re curious it’s @ Kaleidoscope of Color
© 2010 Skip Hunt
