Description: Photograph
Award: Sheldon L. Ladd, and F. E. Clark Northwest Environmental Purchase Awards
Artist: Kurt Norlin, Albany, OR
Price: $ 450
Dimensions: 17" x 40"
"Panorama cameras have been used to depict the American landscape and large groups of people since the early 1800's. My first introductions to panoramic photographs were some original images of my grandfather, and the men, horses, dogs and equipment of his fire station in Seattle, Washington. The fine detail and the sense of being there rather than looking at the scene through a window intrigued me.
"Since that time, I have constructed an occasional segmented or "joiner style" of panoramic image, but it was my introduction to digital cameras, PhotoShop, and the Malheur Photographic Workshop in Oregon's high desert that really spurred my interest again. I began by using both digital and analog cameras to capture multiple frames of a view, which were then loaded into the computer and stitched together to construct the panoramic image."
Kurt Norlin
2007
