Robert Coomer Photography

Me and my wife spent the weekend in Lexington for our 14th wedding anniversary. During the weekend we also took time to visit the Berea Craft Festival. It’s nice to be on the other side of the tent, so to say, every once and a while. I had my camera gear with me, but had decided i wasn’t going to spend much time taking photos this trip.

On the way back to Lexington, the sky had some really nice clouds, but being the middle of the day the sky was a little washed out. While driving in circles on the back roads, trying to track down a location on my GPS, I spotted this old barn and silo and knew it would look great in infrared. I circled back and pulled out my infrared modified Canon 30D and fired fired off a couple shots, actually a series of images that could be stitched together as a horizontal, or vertical panorama, or as just a standard 4×6 aspect photo.

I loaded it to my laptop that night and made a few quick edits, and came up with the above image. This image is actually a stitch of 3 images from top to bottom. I think it turned out pretty nice.

I’m participating in a photography show at the Maple Creek Artisan Center in Moscow Ohio during the month of July. There are 9 photographers participating in this show. I have a quite a few photos in the upstairs gallery, with 3 large prints over the fireplace, a large wall space, and 3 bins of matted prints of various sizes and prices.

The gallery has lots of other great work on display, including pottery, paintings, and other fine crafts. Stop by and check out their class schedules too.

I’ve been busy working on new galleries that allow the online ordering of small unmatted prints, and adding lots of new images. I’ll post here as soon as new galleries are added.

For a peek at what is coming, and what is currently available, click here.

For custom orders, larger, matted, or signed prints, please contact and order from me directly. The prints from the new system are not printed by me, but through a professional lab. All prints ordered directly from me, as at the art shows, are printed by me.

I’ll be at the Wyoming Art Show, Booth 42, this weekend. Stop by and say hello, and see some of my newer prints.

The Wyoming Art Show is Greater Cincinnati’s premiere juried art show & Competition.
150 Artists from 7 states show & sell their art under the tree-lined streets of historic Wyoming, Ohio.
Over $4,500 in competition prizes awarded.
FREE parking, FREE admission, FREE children’s art activities.
Food Court featuring local restaurants

Two of my photos from the 2009 NSS print salon appear in the May issue of the NSS News. An image from Triple S Cave, with Tammy and Eric, appears on the bottom of the back cover, and at the end of the inside photo gallery, “Give Me That Key” appears with Ryan and Jeff, at a Mammoth Cave entrance during work weekend.

Don’t miss our second annual Holiday Open House – done in conjunction with Pam Duncan (A Way with Clay) and promoted through the Clay Alliance festival guide.

Featuring:
Robert Coomer Photography
Tabka Coomer Jewelry
Pam Duncan Pottery – A Way With Clay

Saturday, December 6th 11-5
Sunday, December 7th 11-3
4328 Peppermill Lane, Blue Ash, 45242

Some of the proceeds will be donated to the Rockcastle Karst Conservancy.

Also featuring a “Bargain Basement” with some great deals on pots from Pam Duncan that have been hanging around just a little too long.

I may also have a few scratch and dent canvas prints available.

Above and Below, is now on display at the Southern State Community College library, through November. Above+Below Appalachia is a collection of photos and artwork by Robert Coomer that reveal mysterious and beautiful images from beneath the Earth’s surface and the natural beauty of forgotten rural barns and back road landscapes of Appalachia. The images capture the world of natural light and color and then contrasts it with a world of complete darkness, of alien shapes and forms that are rarely seen. Above and Below Appalachia is a study of light, both natural and artificial and its interaction with the familiar and the unseen. A portion of the proceeds from work sold during this show will go to help preserve caves and karst through a donation to the Rockcastle Karst Conservancy.

A selection of images from my Below the Surface series is also on display. Combining cave photos and medical scans, this series challenges the viewer to consider our relationship to the world around us, and how we interact with it. Whether blood and water, or bone and stone, many comparisons can be made between our bodies, and our planet.

Come out and meet the artist on Thursday, October 15th, from 6 – 8pm.

I’m somewhere between a massive rebuild of my current website and scrapping it completely to switching to a new photo server. I’m reviewing possible solutions as I post this.

I’m planning to have this completed by the end of October, and maybe a sneak peak before then. Part of this upgrade will be the availability of my “Artful Letters” series many of you have seen and commented on at recent art shows.

Front Street Gallery in New Richmond has asked me to teach a photography class, starting some time in October. The class will run for several weeks, held on Monday nights. We’re still working out a schedule.

Contact me or Paul at the Front Street Gallery if you are interested for more information.

The Clermont Sun did an article about me and other Clermont County artists: Shannon Godby, and Justin Burwinkel.

Clermont artists add flair to Summerfair