Yellowstone!

Listening to bear. Yellowstone, May 2011.

I have show at the Image Flow in Mill Valley of some selects from my recent trip to Yellowstone in May 2011. The show will be up until the end of August.

Here is my artist statement for the show and here is a link to the images in the show.  Images.

osprey, bald eagle, kestrel, magpie, raven, white pelican, bison,  elk,
mule deer, moose, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goat,
badger, uinta ground squirrel, yellow-bellied marmot, bobcat, cougar,
canadian lynx, red fox, coyote, grey wolf, black bear, grizzly bear...and so on.

Yellowstone!

A place where I seek wildlife, solitude as well as the kinship with the like-minded nomadic tribe who are as drunk as I am with enthusiasm to witness wolf, bear, and all that is wild. The images are a result of my recent pilgrimage to Yellowstone National Park in May 2011. The pictures represent my experience within the park while embracing the wintry palette of May's winter-like weather. Days of snow with white skies, white land, white wind, white rain, white hail, white cold and when the white out fades, visions of wildlife begin to form through the mist and fog. The presence of animals warmed my imagination and provided imaginary heat. With the sight of a bear or white pelicans flying overhead, I became hyper-alert and forgot about the frigid cold.

The practice of becoming aware of the presence of 'something' nearby but is not visible, this 'something' that is more aware of you than you are of it, this act of observing the presence and the absence of animals is what motivates me to photograph. My pictures owe their inspiration to pictorialism rather than documentation. And I hope the hint of the sheer joy that I have while visually responding to Yellowstone lies within these pictures.

-Trish Carney