In time for the Holidays, I just published on Blurb.com my 3rd book: Sandstone Sonnets: Photographic Poems of Utah's Redrock Country, Vol. I.

Eighty pages and over 100 photos are featured in my first of many projected volumes documenting southern Utah in the Clayhaus fashion: using infrared, HDR, and other compositional or processing technics that hopefully make my images unique. Printed on premium paper and available in both softcover and hardcover the book can be ordered direct and usually arrives within 2 weeks of order placement.

I called the book Sandstone Sonnets because I've long been attracted to the musical tone poems of Richard Strauss, probably the most Western and obvious examples of program music -- where music is not just a series of notes, but representative of greater concepts and expressions. So to do I often think of the vast and varied landscapes of Zion, Arches, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands and a few other spots off the beaten path

From the Introduction..."Photographic tone poems, panoramic sonnets, visual odes of scenic beauty and wonderment: whatever musical metaphors are chosen, the vast and varied landscape of America's Southwest – and Utah's redrock country in particular – never cease to amaze, inspire and delight. Like any good music, the temperament of these lands vary from stormy to serene, forbidding to welcoming, but they never bore.

Sandstone Sonnets attempts to capture and present the terrain, sky and waters – as well as the moods and music – of this beautiful and sometimes surreal region."

What: Selections from three different projects that are under way:
In a Different Light: Infrared Images of Utah’s West Desert
Sandstone and Sky: Known and Unknown Southern Utah
& The Last Inland Sea: Great Salt Lake

Where: Artistic Framing & Sugarhouse Gallery

When: Through the month of December (2009)

How: Artist's Reception the evening of 18-Dec, 6:30 - 8:30. Refreshments and beverages will be served.