Jansen Gunderson Landscape Photography

I’ll be donating 5% of the proceeds from the sales of photographs from the M-E Style Gallery exhibition to the Matt Lund Fund. Check out the site and donate some money or your time to Matt and his family.

bring home something nice for the holidays opening reception and gallery stroll after-party
featuring live performances by Tolchock Trio and Bronco

friday, december 15th, 6pm-12am, $5 at the door
gallery hours: December 16th & 17th, 12 - 6 pm

a chance to buy affordable, one-of-a-kind gifts created by established and emerging local artists. artwork, music, movies, cards, books, and clothing from over forty artists will be discounted from gallery prices just for this event. come find the perfect gift and support local arts. Presented by Guest Curator Kenny Riches of Kayo Gallery. The Pickle Company is located at 741 S. 400 W. Salt Lake City, UT 84101 801.450.8977 http://www.thepicklecompany.org/

November has been a fairly busy month for me as I’ve been preparing for two exhibitions. The first will be at the M-E Style Gallery in Tooele, Utah. Yes, Tooele does have a gallery and it happens to be a very nice one. The show is called “The Light and the Land: Large Format Landscape Photography by Jansen Gunderson”. There is an opening reception December 8th from 6 to 9 p.m. and the show runs until January 5th. Below is the postcard.

I will also be showing prints at a group show at the Pickle Company in Salt Lake City, Utah beginning December 13th. More info to follow.

I’m in the process of moving jansengunderson.com over to Dreamhost. The site may experience some downtime as I try to figure out how to move all the SQL databases. Thanks for your patience.

During a trip to Grand Teton National Park last month, Aaron Tillmann and I stood at the base of Hidden Falls in Cascade Canyon amid a steady drizzle of rain and a few straggling hikers. Presented before us was a brilliant display of the falls, flowing over the black granite. I found myself uninspired by the somewhat ordinary image of the falls until I noticed some interesting patterns the white water was making over the stone. Aaron and I ascended the slippery and treacherous talus slope and stood under the freezing mist to make the photograph shown below. Taken with a Shen-Hao 4×5 field camera, Rodenstock 210mm f/5.6 lens, on Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Maggie and I took a short camping trip with some friends last weekend to the San Rafael Swell. The Swell is probably Utah’s last stretch of desert to be exploited for both tourism and oil/gas. We took our friends to a remote boulder-strewn wash to show them some Native American petroglyphs and were astonished to see some exploratory mining occuring nearby. With any luck, they won’t find what they’re looking for and will spare such a beautiful and pristine place from being destroyed and turned into another coal mine.

I made this photo during sunset; looking north toward the Price mountains. Taken with a Shen-Hao 4×5 field camera, Rodenstock 210mm f/5.6 lens, on Fujichrome Velvia 50, 1 stop graduated neutral density filter. Larger image here.

I started this blog to mainly keep track of my progress with my Wyoming Photography Portfolio Project (tentative name) and to keep those who might be interested up to date with my work.

The Wyoming project began around April of this year. It was the idea of a good friend and client, Dr. Thomas Rosenberg. Tom has a special love and appreciation for the Wyoming landscape and has spent over 30 years exploring the backcountry of the Wind River Mountains and other parts of the state. Tom noticed that aside from Wyoming’s few national parks and monuments, no photographer had really captured the essense of the landscape. Thus, my research began and an informal intinerary was put into place to become immersed in and to photograph the vast and varried Wyoming Landscape.

Below is a photograph I made of the Teton Mountains in October, 2004. Taken with a Shen-Hao 4×5 field camera, Rodenstock 210mm f/5.6 lens, on Fujichrome Velvia 50.