Hancock Shaker Village

Hancock Shaker Village - We are fortunate to live near Hancock Shaker Village, a mid Nineteenth Century Shaker community now a living museum. I had visited many times over the years with regular cameras, with only ordinary results as far as I was concerned. At some point early in the 2014 season I got the idea (somehow I remember it was after seeing a professional photographer shoot the village for publicity from a drone) to go backwards in time (not literally) and try using my iPhone and then running the images through several apps I had to create effects which in many cases would mimic early photographic techniques. In the back of my mind I had an idea that perhaps I could get an exhibit at the Village sometime in the future. During the 2014-2016 seasons I shot and created through these apps a couple of thousand images, and shortly after heart surgery in 2016 met with the then curator who was intrigued and promised me a show the following season. Unfortunately, things changed under a new Director and curator and that exhibit never happened. I have however exhibited many of these images at several different venues and still consider this iPhone collection of images among the very best work I have ever done.