OSPIX

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." – Ursula K. Le Guin One of the many things I wanted to accomplish during my artist residency in Svalbard was to capture aerial footage of the Antigua at full sail. Much appreciation for the determined team effort to loft nine sails just as the sun set on the last full day of our journey. It was quite a challenge to land the drone safely on the crowded deck while traveling at speed. 👊 @ospix, The Antigua – Sassenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard – Sunset – 2022

I'M NUMBER TWO!🥈Runner up for the @LAPressClub Photojournalist of the Year award announced this weekend. 2nd time I've placed 2nd for the top photography honor. Eager to resume work on High & Dry, my writer-photographer project with Christopher Langley on @KCET #Artbound when conditions permit traveling together to explore communities across the California Desert. Stay tuned!🌵 Twin Trucks Heading South Towards Storm – Infrared Exposure – Highway 395 – Owens Valley, CA – 2013 (detail) #ospix #roadtrip #flirtingwithdisaster #blackandwhitephotography #monochromatic #infraredphotography #artexhibition #OwensValley #tractorsupply #losangelesartist #losangelesphotographer #canadianphotographer #photographecanadien #danishphotograher #bulgarianphotographer #photojournalism #naeja #awards #journalism #artsandentertainment @wstrnmoov @vonlintelgallery vonlintel.com (at Owens Valley) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNneRpoAt1Y/?igshid=1inotfxr0zn5q

WATCH OUT CALIFORNIA, HERE WE GOPRO 🚙 My first @GoPro! Should get some badass footage from this low angle car mount. But first, gotta wait for the tape to cure, caused I'm hoping that lanyard won't ever see any action. So much to learn! Any GoProPros super-knowledgeable about time lapse, time warp, etc – DM me. #ospix #adventuremobile #asubarunamedcosmos #contemporaryphotography @gopro #gopro #goprohero9 #adventure #goprophotography #goprolife #subaruoutback #subaruoutbackxt #subaruoutbackxtonyx #subarulife #subarulifestyle @subaru_usa💥 (at Chungking Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNLU2G9AwL2/?igshid=t0mgbd1ic72i

Takeoff (LAX to MKE) 2010✈️Looking forward to doing this again sometime soon (but not quite yet!) Stay safe, my friends. We may well be on verge of beating this thing, but still need to stay the course for another month or two. It is always a pleasure to takeoff from LAX, but at sunrise with a storm coming off the Pacific, it is pure enchantment. Autonomous groups of clouds have formed on different levels, and in the distance there is virga: rain that evaporates before it reaches the earth. The dark landform at the center is Palos Verde Peninsula. From my series Armchair in the Sky: ospix.com/armchair_in_the_sky #ospix #casualsurrealism #cloudporn #rainandsun #armchairinthesky #fineartphotography #losangelesartist #losangelesphotographer #canadianphotographer #photographecanadien #danishphotograher #bulgarianphotographer #travel #windowseat #viewfromabove #niftycowboy @niftycowboy @flylaxairport @vonlintelgallery ☀️ (at LAX - Los Angeles International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNK6vCfg2jk/?igshid=1xhen75u7qu87

In Transit (AMS to LAX) 2014 ✈️Returning from Nairobi to Los Angeles via Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, our @KLM flight flew over the orderly agricultural and industrial landscape of the Netherlands. I trained a telephoto lens on what appears to be a rock-processing plant with railroad and maritime shipping facilities. “Miniature faking” has become a popular trick whereby life-size locations are made to look like scale models by blurring the top and bottom of the image using a tilt-shift lens or later in Photoshop. Here, air disturbance from the jet exhaust achieves the same illusion at the moment of capture, without the use of special equipment. This type of in-camera alchemy is at the heart of my photographic practice; adding another layer of casual surrealism to this depiction of modern commercial aviation.
 From my series Armchair in the Sky: ospix.com/armchair_in_the_sky #ospix #casualsurrealism #armchairinthesky #fineartphotography #losangelesartist losangelesphotographer #canadianphotographer #photographecanadien #danishphotograher #bulgarianphotographer #travel #windowseat #viewfromabove #niftycowboy @niftycowboy @schiphol @netherlands.official @travel.in.netherlands @vonlintelgallery 🔍 (at Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNI8EdNgkwV/?igshid=1n3rjojfyl3k2

BJP’S OPENWALLS ARLES submissions accepted thru April 1, 11:50pm UK Time. As last year’s series award winner, I can vouch for the benefits of having work featured in this context.💥 📸 © Osceola Refetoff, Window with Creosote Bush – Dunmovin, California – 2010 #ospix #itsamesswithoutyou #abandonedstructure #californiadesert #desertlandscapephotography #artphotography #mythofthewest #mojavedesert #windowseries #windowview #arles #artcontemporain #photographie #photofestival #openwallsarles #openwallsarles2020 #OW2020 #britishjournalofphotography @bjp1854 #galeriehuit @galeriehuitarles 👀 (at Arles, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBSpVNgNpk/?igshid=1kevcp54ifmjo

CHEMISTRY AND LIGHT at @vonlintelgallery⚡️Grab your hat, mask up; and go see some art! Chuck Kelton and Joseph Minek’s outstanding exhibition is open for walk ins, masks and social distancing required. Where: Von Lintel Gallery, 1206 Maple Av # 212, L.A 90018. There is a garage in the @BendixBuilding accessible from 12th St. “Chemistry and Light brings together the work of Chuck Kelton and Joseph Minek -- two artists who practice versions of camera-free photography. They each elect instead to work directly with the raw materials of darkroom practice -- paper, chemicals, lightbulbs -- generating unique monoprints. Their energetic works carry resonance with abstract painting and natural phenomena.” And of course this beautiful work is best viewed in person. Photo: @t_von_lintel 📸 #ospix #niftycowboy #vonlintelgallery #photography #photogram #chemogram #uniquephotography #artgallery #experimentalphotography #oneofakindphotography #analogphotography #alternativeprocess #experimental #abstractart #abstractartwork #doesnotreproduce #josephmink #chuckkelton #chemistryandlight @josephminek @chuckkeltonimages 💥 (at Von Lintel Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM5D_ZGgYlC/?igshid=1wee79lzrr69k

Environmental portrait of @cyricegriffith launching her new art/commerce endeavor #GriffithChessDesigns. #ospix #chessboards #contemporaryphotography #colorphotography #environmentalportrait #canon5dsr #giftforafriend 🎁 (at Chungking Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMz-C4FgiIs/?igshid=16afyc0u3of2p

Osceola Refetoff, Landing – BUR to SJC – 2014 (First printed: 2016) While offering much detail to explore, from the bolts on the wing to the distant bridge in the upper left corner, it is the overall balance of color and shapes that led me to print this particular exposure from the thousands I've made from commercial airliners. To me, the image has the feel of a traditional landscape painting, perhaps recalling "The Oxbow" by Thomas Cole of the Hudson River School, painted in 1836. #ospix #sanfrancisco #armchairinthesky #fineartphotography #losangelesartist #losangelesphotographer #canadianphotographer #travel #windowseat #viewfromabove #thomascole #hudsonriverschool @vonlintelgallery ✈️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CMz7utrg--h/?igshid=1nae7bppyy2m6

In Transit - FTE to BRC (El Calafate to Bariloche - Patagonia, Argentina). From my series “Armchair in the Sky.” #ospix #Patagonia #Argentina #armchairinthesky #fineartphotography #losangelesartist losangelesphotographer #canadianphotographer #travel #windowseat #viewfromabove ✈️ (at Patagonia Argentina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxSx_VAfoE/?igshid=1dj9hip666had

GOLDEN HOUR at MOAH ☀️ @moahlancaster is finally open to the public! This outstanding cycle of photography-based work is absolutely #mustsee, including alternative process images like my “Blue Hopper” pinhole exposure, newly acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. The show also includes work by artists you may not have heard about: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Darryl Curran, Robert Heinecken, Dorothea Lange, Ed Ruscha, Sheila Pinkel, Nancy Webber, and Edward Weston, among many others. 😉 A rare opportunity to see prints of seminal California images, many on loan from the @lacma permanent collection. #Viewing by appointment thru May 9. Sign up via the link in profile (TODAY ONLY). Photo: @ShanaNys Dambrot 📸 #ospix #vonlintelgallery #kinematicexposures #uniquework #experimentalphotography #contemporaryphotography #fineartphotography #pinholephotography #pinholecamera #stenope #sténopé #incameraeffects #leicam8 #museumexhibition #contemporaryart #laart #laartscene #losangelesart #losangelesartist #losangelesgalley #canadianphotographer #keeplancasterweird @vonlintelgallery 👀 (at Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMnHr7IACbf/?igshid=1srea8celo08p

ROAD TO NOWHERE GOOD ☠️ Have you ever noticed tire tracks heading off into what appears to be unnavigable terrain? I have. But never before did I think, "That looks cool. I should follow those tracks!” And so began another "brilliant" adventure, just as night was falling, and storms bore down on all sides... #ospix #threehourtour #thisseemssmart #mudlife #saltonsea #cloudporn #desertstorm #misadventuresintravel #environmentalissues #californiadesert #aridlandscape #californiadesert #subaruoutback #subaruoutbackxt #subaruoutbackxtonyx #subarulife #subarulifestyle @subaru_usa @offroadoutbacks #studentoflife👨‍🎓 (at Salton Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdOpKrATy8/?igshid=4611ku6daml4

Hanging with @MilesRegis at the gorgeous new 1700 S Santa Fe gallery destination. #ospix #artgallery #artopening #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #figurativepainting #contemporarysculpture #laart #laartscene #losangelesart #losangelesartist #losangelesgallery #friendswithtalent #mydayinla https://www.instagram.com/p/CMGYGaXAZwU/?igshid=9mpkasztysmd

Regram with much appreciation to be in conversation with such #talentedartists, for the #artsinstitutions that preserve and exhibit our #culturalheritage, and to @t_von_lintel for getting stunning work out into the world #bywhatevermeansnecessary: @vonlintelgallery Museum Quality work we are obsessing over. Despite Covid, several Museums have acquired work by Von Lintel gallery artists this year. Check out the viewing room -link in bio- for typical works by these artists. The prices range form $ 1200 to $ 7000. Christiane Feser - Getty Museum Chuck Kelton - Getty Museum Osceola Refetoff - Lancaster Museum of Art and History Joe Rudko - Museum of Fine Arts Houston Christopher Russel - Bidwell Projects (Transformer Station) Accra Shepp - Art Institute of Chicago Joni Sternbach - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Waugh - University of New Mexico State Museum Melanie Willhide - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Art in picture above Joseph Minek 2021 Unique c-print/chemigram 14 x 11 inches (40 x28 cm) $ 1200 unframed #Chuckkelton #Christopherrussell #Christianefeser #accrashepp #melaniewillhide #michaelwaugh #Osceolarefetoff #ospix #Jonisternbach #Joerudko #permanentcollection #Gettymuseum #LACMA #MFAH #MOAH #acquisitions #josephminek 🔥 (at Von Lintel Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLz_6qRAj2H/?igshid=pugjhxha5pps

LAST CHANCE! 💥 "Andy Moses: Recent Works" closes this Saturday, Feb 27. @andymosesart will be at @WilliamTurnerGallery from 2-5pm to discuss the work with visiting guests and sign copies of the exhibition catalog. williamturnergallery.com #ospix #friendswithtalent #contemporarypainting #contemporarysculpture #laart #laartscene #losangelesartist #losangelesgalley #mydayinla 🔴 (at William Turner Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLuq3dMgokP/?igshid=540p6j1ymqi0

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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! ♥️ he Persistence of Being #6 (after Giacometti) – Kinematic Pinhole Exposure – 2010 (Royal Blue/Fuchsia) #ospix #giacometti #vonlintelgallery #kinematicexposures #uniquework #experimentalphotography #contemporaryphotography #fineartphotography #colorphotography #pinholephotography #pinholecamera #stenope #sténopé incameraeffect #leicam8 #artexhibit #contemporaryart #laart #laartscene #losangelesart #losangelesartist #losangelesgalley #canadianphotographer 👀 (at Von Lintel Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSyR2ogidZ/?igshid=1m68vq6ydewum