If you like looking at beautiful photographs of the outdoors, go to the newest show at Johnson Heritage Post. The gallery is filled with pictures shot by 19 (mostly) local photographers. The show runs through December 14 and features scenes of all four seasons, as well as many of the birds and animals that live in the northland.
It’s a cliché to say a picture is worth “1,000 words” when in reality a picture can stop you dead in your tracks and leave you speechless. Or wondering out loud—how did they do that? Or how did they see that when I was looking at the same thing and didn’t see that at all?
There were more than a few of those photographs hanging on the walls of the Johnson Heritage Post on Friday, October 21, the grand opening of Northern Photography which will run through December 4.
The show features 19 (mostly) local photographers who shoot the same scenes 19 different ways using different lenses, different cameras and definitely different viewpoints. Which, for the lover of photography, makes this show one of the most interesting, intriguing, and unique shows to be held at Johnson Heritage Post in years.
The featured artists are David Brislance, Don Davison, Joi Electra, Brett Grandson, Bryan Hansel, Betty Hemstad, Stephan Hoglund, Gary Jacobsen, Roger Nordstrom, Travis Novitsky, Jim Ringquist, Jay Steinke, Ellen Stubbs, Paul Sundberg, Sandra Updyke, Kjersti Vick, Jon/Andrew Wood, Brett Grandson and Bruce Johnson.
Summer, fall, winter and spring. Fox and birds and wolves and moose, caught in the daylight, the song of twilight, even the dead of night, come forth from the lens of photographers who see things in a unique and often beautiful way.
Looking at these pictures is a great way to spend an afternoon. Come out and see this show. See things you’ve always seen and, maybe, like me, you’ll say, “I’ve seen that my whole life but I didn’t see it like that before.”
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