Isla Consag Wood Print

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As you throw your towel down on the sand, anticipating a loose and relaxing afternoon in the sun on one of San Felipe's blonde beaches, cast your gaze eastward and you'll likely witness one of the many masks of Isla Consag, the 296 foot guano-covered rock that rises out of the sea twenty two miles off the town's shoreline.
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The island seems to have more disguises than Lon Chaney, more impressions than Rich Little. Atmospheric tricks keep the rock in a perpetual morphic dance, at one instant showing its circus midget stature while an hour later it looms out of the sea like an NBA star. The next day it draws a mantle of mysticism around itself and appears as a floating city in the sky. Then the following week it seems content to be, for a while, simply itself. A furrowed rock edifice, crusted white with bird droppings.
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I currently live in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. I was born and raised in the beautiful state of Maine, where my interest in photograhy was discovered. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, when I was six or seven years old, and I've been hooked on the art of photography ever since. A year or so later, I got my first processing and print making kit and I began to realize that I could be as creative, if not more so, in the darkroom than in the field. Over the years, my cameras and darkroom got more complex, giving me more creative tools to work with. About 15 years ago, I traded film, chemicals, tanks, trays, and the smell, for a digital camera and a copy of Photoshop. I never looked back. My goal is to capture and...