Bill Gotz

Thursday February 4, 2010

New Portfolio: Road Trip to Yellowstone, Aug. 2008

Exit 406, I-90, So. Dakota, 6:35pm, Aug. 8, 2008 (Image 14696).

I’ve posted yet another fresh portfolio. (And again it’s not new it’s from 2008.) The photos are from our road trip to Yellowstone that year. I mean on the road to Yellowstone, not in Yellowstone. (I’m putting that one together now.)

We took a leisurely, some might say excruciating, three days to travel there that year. We usually leave late afternoon, traveling all night and get to Gardiner in the morning for breakfast at the Town Talk Cafe. That breakfast almost makes the trip worth it by itself. I took this opportunity to create a travel portfolio across the Great Plain on I-90. My stops were semi-random. There was no going back to an interesting spot. I either hit the exit or kept going. And when I stopped I had to get in and out of the car fast to keep the convoy going. No over thinking and not much worry about getting pretty pictures. I was just photographing what I found. It’s really about driving and seeing.

Check out the the portfolio .

Wednesday February 3, 2010

Small Power Plant

Small Power Plant, Hwy 61, Minnesota, Jan. 24, 2008 (Image 13779). Gunflint Road Trip, January 2008

I’ve posted a fresh portfolio, (not a new one, it’s from 2008.) The images are from far Northern Minnesota along the North Shore and the Gunflint Trail.

This image from that portfolio contains much of what has interested me in my image making. I’ll let you consider what those themes are for yourself.

This picture always reminds me of the state of the national paranoia. When I was taking this picture I was hassled by a watchful consumer er I mean citizen. He was concerned I was taking pictures of “our facility.” According to dim, I mean him, “our facility” is on the Homeland Security list. Come on, I’m sure terrorists wreak havoc by stopping on a busy highway to set up a tripod and take pictures of a road. Scary! And if “our facility” is on the list is my garage? Is taking pictures near my garage a threat to national security?

Enough reminiscing. Check out the portfolio.