Tidbit Tuesday

What can you create with a hole? This image of Maeser Elementary was created with a hole, in specific a pinhole!

Pinhole photography involves using a light-tight container of some type for the camera, a light sensitive media (film or photographic paper) to receive the image, and a "pinhole" to act as a lens to allow light to enter and form the image on the light sensitive material. Pinhole cameras have taken almost every shape and size. Before the advent of light sensitive material, people as far back as the fifth century BC have understood and used the "pinhole" principles. Aristotle and da Vinci among others understood and used pinholes.

No lens, no glass, no Photoshop!

-David W. Hawkinson

4" x 5" framed to 14" x 11"
Silver gelatine print
Contact printed pinhole image

Our Price: $125

Tidbit Tuesday

Winter Afternoon is a scene from the mountains of New Hampshire. In my earlier life, I spent many happy days cross-country skiing in New Hampshire. I was trying to capture the feeling of a cold, sunny day in the mountains.

-Anne Weber

12" x 16"
Pastel

Tidbit Tuesday

As seen on a Terra Nova Gallery water bottle:

Random facts about things you already know

Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright. He got the idea from a building technique his father used in designing Tokyo's Imperial hotel.

February Calendar

Here is the new calendar for February. Friday night (6 Feb.) during the Gallery Stroll Robert McKay will be doing a live painting demonstration here in the gallery. Make sure to stop in and see the demo. Also, here is the new calendar in case you don't make it into the gallery to pick your own up. You can download and print this one.

Enjoy!
-David

Tidbit Tuesday

Here is a new post, the first of what I hope will be on-going and fun filled. I'm calling it Tidbit Tuesday. You can catch it here or via email from the Terra Nova Gallery opt-in email list. Today's Tidbit Tuesday features a work from the current exhibit Robert McKay: Indoors & Outdoors at Terra Nova Gallery.

Enjoy
-David

The interior in Carnation is a room on the second floor of my great-grandfather's home built around 1870. It is the David McKay home, birthplace of David O. McKay, historically registered in Huntsville, Utah.

The one-armed chair depicted was a gift from my grandfather to my grandmother. He bought it for her because he thought that she loved it and she kept it because she thought that he loved it. Years later, it was discovered that they both disliked it.

-Robert McKay

Happy New Year!

Happy 2009!

We're starting the new year off with a great exhibit at Terra Nova Gallery. Robert McKay: Indoors & Outdoors opens tonight (2 January) and runs to the 27th of February. Stop into the gallery tonight to meet Robert, enjoy the exhibit and pick up your new January Terra Nova Gallery calendar.

See you in the gallery
-David

Ceramics

I recently had an enjoyable morning shoot with Max Esplin. Max is working with ceramics at BYU. Here are two images from our shoot.

Enjoy
-David