Gallery
We've put together some of our favorite images from outings or project driven work. Please enjoy this sampling of images that Five Swallows Fine Art has to offer.
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Slot Canyon
Landscape Photography
Slot canyons are cut deep into the earth by water, creating fluid, visceral forms that the eye sees as imaginary landscapes or body forms. As the light washes down the sandstone walls of the narrow canyons it's is gently absorbed and reflected creating hues from hot whites and yellows to cold burgundy's and purples.
Methuselah Tree
Landscape/Documentary Photography
On the North Western corner of California, above 11,000 ft. where the air is so thin it's hard to breathe, grows the oldest living organism on this planet, the Methuselah Tree. The Methuselah tree is a 5000 year old bristle cone pine, which means it sprouted around the end of the Stone Age, and has lived in these mountains witness to the entire growth of human civilization. The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest feels so close to the sky like it's reaching up into the heavens. This is a place that defines time on it's own terms.
Mono Lake is an alkaline lake that doesn't have an outlet to the ocean. Recently water was diverted to Los Angeles, lowering the water level and exposing tufa towers (created by minerals deposited by underground water flowing into the lake). The still water in the hot desert combine with exotic tufa towers make for a beautiful, alien landscape. The knobbled tufa towers are reflected on the mirror surface of the lake creating shapes that are almost like three dimensional sound waves.
Just north of Mono lake is the Bodie ghost town. Ever baked by the sun, the last resident left in in 1943 after the gold ran out.
The geology of Death Valley is as stunning and diverse as life is in the rainforest. Included in this gallery are images of the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Artists Palette, Zabriskie Point and the Armagosa Range.
"On this trip I was fortunate enough to be camping out under a moonless sky. The stars were so bright I could clearly make out the milky way and galactic center. I got the strong sense that I could see our galaxy in three dimensions, and had a sense of standing on our little rock on it's edge peering into it's center. "
Redwood NP
Documentary Photography
The Redwoods National Park is on the Northern coast of California and his home the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens); one of the worlds tallest and most massive tree species known to grow over 370ft high. These giants are also very long lived with some specimens measured at over 2000 years old.
These giant, ancient forests convey a sense of majesty that is unparalleled.
North Main
Documentary Photography
Sitting at the intersection of hipster, hippie and yuppie, a new area is emerging at the intersection of Main Street, Downtown and East Vancouver. Bordered on one side by Science World and False Creek, artist studios and galleries, Gastown, and Chinatown, this area is full of potential and bubbling with inspiration. The neighbourhood around Main and Terminal is still in the process of defining it's identity; close to everywhere, yet distinct.
Tofino to Uclulet
Landscape/Documentary Photography
This gallery includes images from the central/West coast of Vancouver Island. The aptly named Cathedral Grove in MacMillan Provincial Park where a stand of old growth Douglas Fir give one the sense of the transcendent. Also in this gallery the twisted gnarled Shorepine, the radiant natural collage of mosses and grasses that grow in coastal bogs, the stormy Pacific Ocean, and glassy Larry lake.
PNE
Abstract/Documentary Photography
The exuberant joy of the carnival rides become mysterious abstracts in these photographs. The sugar high of cotton candy levitates bodies into the sky. The agricultural exhibitions become a curio cabinet for the senses. The chatter of amplified booth vendors touting the latest in home conveniences, the smell of grilling hot dogs, the carnival games and the summer heat are the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, B.C.
Fleetwood
Documentary Photography
This gallery is the product of a scouting mission for a project in Fleetwood, Surrey. Fleetwood balances on the edge of natural and developed. These photographs capture the contrast of the suburban and the rural.
Okanagan
Landscape/Macro Photography
The Okanagan is known for its warm summer climate, lake side living, and productive agriculture.
This gallery focuses the on the commonage, short for common pasturage, and its agricultural history. The gently rolling, grass covered hill dotted with small clumps of trees, old weather-worn barns speak to this little known area's pastoral history.
Gibsons
Abstract/Landscape/Documentary Photography
The sunny microclimate that is the Sunshine Coast's namesake speaks to not only the weather, but the friendly disposition of it's inhabitants. This warm pocket on the coast speaks to British Columbia as a whole. Nestled between lush temperate rainforest and pebbled beaches, Gibsons finds a balance between industry and nature. In this gallery we look at how driftwood can become rippling abstracts, reminiscent of the rivers and oceans that brought them there; how a peer becomes a geometric natural reef, how granite and kelp for multicoloured tapestries.
Fall Colours
Landscape/Abstract Photography
These photographs comprise a second movement of images of red maples. The first series of paintings and photographs are titled For the forest doesn't know it looks like fire in the fall embraces the irony that these trees camouflage themselves in a cloak of the colours of fire, the very thing that can destroy them.
Main Street South
Documentary Photography
If bricolage is manifest as a street, I would say that street would be Main St. in Vancouver. Running from the ports on it's North end, through heart of the DTES, south into one of the hippest neighbourhoods in Vancouver, past Paul Wong's Studio, then into the family-friendly suburbs of South Vancouver, and back to the industry of SW Marine. Truly drawing a line through Vancouver's working-class heart.
Deer Lake Park
Landscape/Macro Photography
Deer Lake Park stands as a confusing paradox. Walking the trails or across the long boardwalks one is surrounded with serene beauty, yet for all of this natural beauty it is in actuality a highly altered habitat. Prior to the the area's current incarnation as a park it was temperate rainforest (consisting of Western Hemlock, Douglas Fir, Western Red cedar), as it was a particularly tall stand of trees it was entirely logged. Additionally most of the aquatic species are introduced.
Today Deer Lake Park is commonly used for cultural events and expositions, being home to the Burnaby Art Gallery and outdoor event areas. Historically the Deer Lake location was home to the Okalla Prison Farm where 44 prisoners were executed by hanging, sometimes two or three at a time, prior to the abolition of the death penalty in Canada in 1959.
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