Art Show

I didn't make it backpacking, but I did manage to take in the Bayou City Arts Festival in Memorial Park today, which I highly recommend to any of you Houston lurkers reading this. It's really a very cool exhibit, with more photography than I expected.

I tend to prefer b/w photography, but two wilderness photographers of some note were exhibiting:

Ron Melott, who captured truly amazing color depth of some well selected subjects

and Rodney Lough, who has backpacked into some amazing places to take some stunning color photos. I'm certain he's not an Objectivist, but I just pulled this great statement off his website:

If you look at much of the artwork throughout the past few centuries there seems to be a dark, even sad symbolism. The message being that life is barely worth living, life is horrible. For me, perhaps because I have taken 'The Lough Road,' life is fun, it is grand and I desire to begin each day a new! Life is worth the effort it requires and the beauty, the natural beauty that surrounds us, is breathtaking if we only take the time to see it.

[Posted at 19:46 CST on 03/23/02] [Link]