Larry Brenden searches the Western United States to find compelling natural landscape images. His work conveys greater intimacy than typical landscape photographs and explores nature’s gorgeous color palette. Brenden says:  “I am always looking, but more specifically, I am looking to photograph light, color, and form. To me, photography is all-consuming. A demanding discipline which entails my senses, intellect, and emotion, it is at once my passion and my spiritual base.”

“Using the camera as a tool, my intention is to quietly unveil nature’s secrets with integrity and capture an image true to the scene as first observed. Through the lens I seek to reveal the grandeur of the natural world, uncover her subtleties, show her impressive power, and expose her delicate side. Often, I examine a scene and decipher symmetrical patterns in the seemingly chaotic environment. Recording light and form is at once a fascination and a mystery. It is my goal to present well-crafted, un-doctored, aesthetic prints of the world’s beautifully wild places both to preserve and with full intent to protect.“

A former design engineer in the computer industry, Larry has spent the last decade as a respected photographer of the natural scene.

"You shall enter the living shelter of the forest.
You shall walk where only the wind has walked before".
                                     – Nancy Newhall, 1959

Iconic symbols of majestic form, evocative of age and fortitude, trees solicit emotive responses. Whether provoking conservation movements, inspiring artistry, or simply impressing the viewer, they have historically symbolized strength, power, and beauty.  Growing in lush rainforests, chaparral woodlands, and mountainside rock outcroppings, trees in their myriad forms permeate many inhabited regions of the Earth, and consequently, are revered, studied and harvested.  And, their presence is recorded.  Tree: Observed presents visual interpretations by four American photographers working in distinct topographical and geographic regions.  From the East Coast to the country’s westernmost point of Hawaii, each photographer, employing his or her chosen photographic medium and technique, has eloquently interpreted these natural icons.

From Where I Stand is a group exhibit of photography students from ten high schools in Sacramento, California, and the surrounding region. Working with both traditional and digital media, the one hundred photographs in the exhibit demonstrate the energetic, experimental and fresh perspective of these young artists. Clearly the points of view are individual, as the title of the exhibit suggests, yet the subjects and attitudes reflect the common concerns and experiences of today’s young student artists. The photographs illustrate technical competence in night exposures, portraits, landscape, motion studies, digital high dynamic range, black and white, and color images.

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The April exhibit showcases contributions to this year’s Fine Print Auction. Featured photographers include Howard Bond, Martha Casanave, Mark Citret, Richard Garrod, Kate Jordahl, Koichiro Kurita, C. Cameron Macauley, Richard Murai, Dianne Poinski, Merg Ross, Ryuijie, and John Wimberley. 

In addition to viewing this exhibit, visitors have the opportunity to purchase their favorite prints directly, or to cast a silent bid for their preferred photographs. The excitement culminates on the evening of May 1st, when attendees compete for favored prints to be acquired in true Auction style complemented with wine and hors d’œuvres.