North Shore Lighthouse

Spiltrock Lighthouse
is located on Lake Superior's north shore, a few miles north of Two Harbors Mn.

This light house is one of the most famous lighthouse on the Great Lakes.

I painted the scene with acrylics on an 11 x 14 canvas board.

North Shore of Lake Superior

Stone Water tower;

located in Gooseberry State Park

painted in acrylics

Prokudin-Gorskii's Color Photography

The current exhibition (September 28, 2009 – February 28, 2010) at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis is Photographer to the Tsar: Revealing the Silk Road. The exhibit features the work of Sergei M. Prokudin-Gorskii. Prokudin-Gorskii was one of the pioneers of color photography. Between 1907 and 1915 he documented Russia's Central Asian territories and other regions of the Russian Empire.

My favorite photo in the exhibit is the Fabric Merchant of Samarkand. Sergei M. Prokudin-Gorskii used a special camera that made three black-and-white images through three separate color filters. The Library of Congress online exhibit The Empire That Was Russia describes this photographic process and shows examples of his work. The Library of Congress made digital color images from Prokudin-Gorskii's negatives.

images from the Library of Congress