Roman Loranc

I was doing some research online when some photos caught my eye. They were taken by a photographer named Roman Loranc. He immigrated to the US from Poland & settled in the California Central Valley in the 1980s. He prefers black and white film & uses a 4 x 5 field camera. He mainly does landscape photography.

He has spent twenty years photographing the Cosumnes River Preserve. Every winter the river floods the 700+ acre Preserve's grasslands, fields and forests. Seasonal flooding creates wetlands and a rare river valley oak forest. Loranc tries to capture the mystery and beauty of the winter floods. He photographs other areas and things as well. He is particularly interested in photographing places of prayer in his native Poland and Lithuania. To learn more about Roman Loranc visit his website here.

Group f/64 and Imogen Cunningham

Group f/64 was a group of California photographers who promoted a style of sharply detailed, purist photography which was different than the soft focused Pictorialism that was prevalent at the time. Some of the founding members of Group f/64 were Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Willard Van Dyke. The ideas of the group influenced the direction of photography.

Currently on exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Botanicals : The Photography of Imogen Cunningham, featuring her black and white botanical photographs from the 1920s-1930s. Dave Ehrlinger, the Director of Horticulture of the San Diego Botanical Garden, will lecture on the Plants and Flowers of Imogen Cunningham on Saturday, April 23 at 2 pm as well. The exhibition continues through May 22, 2011. For more information, click here.