A howler monkey forages in the early morning at the Palo Verde Biological Station, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Spring 2009.
Archive for January 2010
Backlit Glass Frog
Jan29
A glass frog sits on a heliconia leaf at the Las Cruces Biological Station in southeastern Costa Rica. Backlit with a headlamp. Spring 2009.
Posted in: Portfolio
I went to the Malco Razorback 6 theater in Fayetteville, AR, last night for a few photos, and then stopped by Dickson St., the locally-famous party-bar-scandal-good restaurant street in Northwest Arkansas, and then snapped a few of Old Main, the most well-known and historic building on the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville campus. It was the first time playing with my shutter release for my new camera, and it was bitterly cold. Therefore, I didn’t take too many pictures…but I think at least some of them turned out well. Excuse the huge post below this; click on one photo and it’ll open a nicer-looking viewer. I’m still working out the kinks as to how to make these mini-galleries more sightworthy. Patience.
Posted in: Blog
Tagged as: architectural
Last night, on assignment for the Traveler, I went to the Fayetteville Town Center to take pictures of Martin Luther King III. This is significant because 1) it was on the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and 2) he came to Fayetteville. Sponsored by the University of Arkansas Distinguished Lecture Series, he spoke to students earlier in the day yesterday before the community event last night. He discussed, of course, how he felt his father would view today’s society (he would be 81 this year…weird), and it was obvious that he knew he had a lot to live up to. He even went so far as to talk about current politics in America–why the wealthiest country in the world couldn’t insure it’s citizens, why there was still so much poverty, why we can print more money whenever we need to, why we hadn’t found Osama Bin Laden when we can read license plate numbers from space, and even why we should support our president even if we don’t agree with some of the things he does. It was quite an interesting speech, and people ate it up. So here’s to you, MLKIII. Good job.
On assignment for The Traveler (I’ll post the story here when it’s available), I shot the local Fayetteville band Apartment 5 on Friday. Horrible lighting (as in, not much of it), but some of the shots turned out well. Here are a few, but check out their set on my Flickr page to see more.
The members are:
Nick Askew – Vocals, Guitar
Joel Paul – Guitar
Max Glenn – Bass
Matt Johannesen – Drums
EDIT: Here’s the story:
http://www.uatrav.com/2010/01/20/in-the-absence-of-dissonance/
Tying Up Lose Ends
Jan16
Well, just a little news to get out there. I’ve sent off four of my six applications to MFA programs, so that feels pretty good. Hopefully I’ll get in somewhere!
I took a bunch of work to Heartwood Gallery, so you can officially go there and check it out.
My reception at the Julie Wait Designs gallery turned out pretty well! Somewhere around fifty people showed up, and there was plenty of good food. Now that the reception is over, I guess I can put up a few shots of the gallery.
Posted in: Blog
Tagged as: exhibition, gallery
Until I can find a better way of putting these on here, here are the links to my recent study abroad blogs.
Click here to go to the blog I kept while studying Tibetan culture in India and Nepal during the fall 2008 semester through Students in International Training.
http://www.ironsidephotography.com/blog/mere_perception.html
And here for the blog I kept while studying tropical biology in Costa Rica through Duke University and the Organization for Tropical Studies during the spring 2009 semester:
http://ironsidephotography.com/blog/pura_vida.html
If you haven’t navigated this type of blog before, be sure to try the “Archives” and “Previous Posts” links in the sidebar. Start from the beginning. Enjoy.
Just a note–I got a call today from Anita at the Heartwood Gallery in Fayetteville saying that they’d accepted me and had a spot available to display. Heartwood Gallery is a small, quaint, interesting little gallery/co-op that is pretty lacking in the photography arena, so hopefully I’ll be there to fill that void!. I’ve also offered to redesign their website, which needs quite a bit of work. I should have some stuff up there by next week, so be sure to check it out if you’re in the Fayetteville area.
New Cards + Gallery Shot
Jan09
So just a small bit of news–I’ve got some new business cards coming soon (thanks to Zach, again), and I’ve hung my exhibition at the Julie Wait Designs gallery in Rogers. The reception is on Friday, January 15th (that’s next Friday) from 6-8, so you should be there! See my previous post for directions.
Here are the new cards, front and back.
And here’s just a sneak peak at the gallery. The photos will be on display until February 19, so be sure to stop by even if you can’t make it to the reception.
Posted in: Blog
Tagged as: exhibition, marketing
Happy Cheeks
Jan07
A toddler looks down from an upper level over a religious puja in Lo Manthang, Mustang, Nepal. November 2008.
Lost Valley Falls
Jan06
A small waterfall on the side of a hill at the Lost Valley nature area near Boxley, Arkansas. 2009.
Old Main is the oldest building on the University of Arkansas campus, and the most widely recognized building in Arkansas.
Posted in: Portfolio
Himalayan Foothills
Jan06
A view of the Himalayas in upper Mustang, Nepal. November 2008.
Snotty-Nose
Jan06
A young boy plays in Lo Manthang, Mustang, Nepal, while his family slaughters two yaks behind him. November 2008.
Winter Landing Strip
Jan05
A robin lands on a tree after an ice storm in Northwest Arkansas. January 2010.
Tibetan Apple Picker
Jan04
A young boy in upper Mustang, Nepal. Though the people of Mustang are politically Nepali, they are culturally Tibetan.
I will be displaying some photos from Arkansas and Costa Rica (and maybe even a few from India/Nepal) in a solo exhibition at the Julie Wait Designs Gallery in downtown Rogers, AR, from January 6 to February 19. There will be a reception on January 15 from 6-8 p.m., and I hope to see all of you there! This is my first true solo exhibition, so it would be great to see a good turnout. There will be delicious hors d’ oeuvres made by the upcoming-chef-extraordinaire Rachel Moore, and the prints will be big and cheap. That’s right. If you want a good print for your wall, now is the time–they might not ever be this cheap again.
Here’s the blurb from the Facebook event:
Julie Wait Designs Gallery in association with Poor Richard’s Art features
Photography by Stephen Ironside
January 6th-February 19th.
An artist reception will be held Friday January 15th, 6-8 p.m.
(alternate weather date January 22nd, if no school in Rogers)
The gallery is located at 318 South First in Rogers, Ar and is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday – Friday and Saturday by appointment. 479-631-8706
“From the Temperate to the Tropics: A Photographic Peregrination”
A Fayetteville native and senior at the University of Arkansas, Stephen Ironside is not currently pursuing a degree in art, though an MFA in photography is beckoning him for graduate school. In any case, he will be pursuing photography professionally with an emphasis on the conservation of foreign cultures and of the natural world. He hopes to use his current biological and anthropological academic backgrounds as starting points, and photography as the medium, to share information about the countless inhabitants of our planet with as many people as possible and to use photography as a means of revitalizing their love for the natural world and respect for cultures besides their own. His photographs strive to be the opposite of abstract; in theory, all who view them will be able to identify, understand, and connect with the subject matter and will want to learn more about what they are seeing. This exhibition takes you on a photographic journey from Arkansas to the jungles of Costa Rica–some of the most natural places in the world.
Click here to get directions to the gallery. See you there!
Posted in: Blog
Tagged as: exhibition
Well, here it is. The grand opening of Version 3.0 of the Ironside Photography website, just in time for the grand opening of 2010. Hipper and cleaner than ever, it’s been a while in the making. Thanks to Zach Jordan for all of his help in developing the site. Thanks to Father Time for keeping the wheels churning.
For old times sakes, here are screen shots from Versions 1 and 2 of the site. Ah, the memories.
Back in high school, I used one of the first renditions of iWeb to make my first website. It was plain and simple, but it showed some images and told who I was. Simple enough. This was back when I was learning layers in Photoshop, shooting with a Canon Powershot A80 point-and-shoot and eventually a Nikon n6006 SLR, and learning that cross-processing film was fun (I really should experiment with that again).
Then in the beginning of my freshman year of college, I met Zach, and he he designed Version 2.0 for me from scratch. This is where I learned what CSS was, and got my first taste of HTML and the pains of web design. Cleaner than before, and fairly functional.
And that brings us to today. Version 3.0. What you see now. I’ve chosen to use WordPress to run my site–it’s simpler, I can update it from anywhere, and there are plugins out the wazoo to customize it as I see fit. Hopefully it will fare better than the last two–by the end of this year, with the old site, I was almost up to 1,000 unique visitors a month.
So, here’s to a new year, a new website, and new goals. Expect kinks for the next little while, but after that, this site should be up, running, and fantastic. See you then.
Ironside Photography
Copyright © 2012 Stephen Ironside. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2012 Stephen Ironside. All Rights Reserved.