Planet Yellowstone Photography and Stories

Announcing PlanetYellowstone.com, a website from art photographer Rick Byerly with photography and stories from his two solo treks in May, June and August of 2008.

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Mia Henry Art Website Launched, Original Oil Paintings on Canvas

I finished a simple, effective website for artist Mia Henry and wanted to get the word out. If you're an artist looking for an affordable website email me.

The Mia Henry Art website has been launched with images of original oil on canvas paintings. Mia also has five paintings on exhibit and for sale at Jeffrey Smith Salon, 3801 Butler St # 2, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, Lawrenceville. Phone (412) 683-8153, Directions here.

Artist Mia Henry's Website

Mia Henry works with oil and large canvasses and creates original works of art. Her work can be seen at her website. Contact her via email here.

http://www.miahenryart.com/

Rick Byerly Website Design Services

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Buy Holiday Art Gifts from Pittsburgh Artist Rick Byerly

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Pittsburgh Skyline Prints for Holiday Gifts

Time to think about what gifts you're giving for the holidays! Get a color, archival photography print of Pittsburgh, matted to 8 by 10", for only $40, which includes free shipping. Website info here.

You can order it online and I'll ship to you next day. You can use paypal to pay with your credit card even if you don't have a paypal account. If paypal doesn't suit you I can process your credit or debit card over the phone. (email rick@uniquetake.com first with what you would like to order along with your phone number and I'll call you.)

What does archival mean? I handle all prints and materials with gloves and everything is acid free and made to last.

Purchase a Pittsburgh skyline photography print for only $40!

More prints and size options here.

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Rick Byerly's Photography Exhibit at Silver Eye Center for Photography

Rick Byerly's Photography Exhibit at Silver Eye Center for Photography runs from November 5 though November 29, 2008. There will be eight 20" by 24" black and white archival photographs of ice textures on display and for sale in the New Works Gallery.

Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 East Carson Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203 Telephone: 412.431.1810 Fax: 412.431.5777

Gallery Hours:Wednesday Thursday, Friday: Noon – 6:00 p.m. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Or by appointment. Admission is free.

Other exhibits, events:

Rick Byerly's Planet Yellowstone Photography Exhibit at Shady Side Academy has been extended until November 18, 2008.

See 20 color photography prints of microbe colored waters, water held in motion, geyser fed streambeads and white mud pots through a zoom lens of a backcountry trekker.

Benedum Visual Arts Building
Shady Side Academy
423 Fox Chapel Road
Pittsburgh PA 15238 (Fox Chapel)

Rick also has 20 by 24" black and white prints on the walls at Shady Side Academy's Hillman Center for the Performing Arts for an extended time period.

He also has an 11 by 14" green and yellow yellowstone thermal print at:
In The Making: 250 Years/250 Artists, Fe Gallery in Lawrenceville, Sept 12-Jan 10, 2008. 4102 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA 15201, 412.860.6028. Gallery Hours 12pm to 4pm Wed-Sat.

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Rick Byerly Photography Exhibit Benedum Arts October November 2008

Rick Byerly's Planet Yellowstone Photography Exhibit at Shady Side Academy has been extended until November 18, 2008.

See 20 color photography prints of microbe colored waters, water held in motion, geyser fed streambeads and white mud pots through a zoom lens of a backcountry trekker.

Exhibit runs until November 18, 2008

Benedum Visual Arts Building

Shady Side Academy

423 Fox Chapel Road

Pittsburgh PA 15238 (Fox Chapel)

Rick also has 20 by 24" black and white prints on the walls at Shady Side Academy's Hillman Center for the Performing Arts for an extended time period.

He also has an 11 by 14" green and yellow yellowstone thermal print at:

In The Making: 250 Years/250 Artists, Fe Gallery in Lawrenceville, Sept 12-Jan 10, 2008. 4102 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA 15201, 412.860.6028. Gallery Hours 12pm to 4pm Wed-Sat.

And an upcoming exhibit at the Silver Eye New Works Gallery, November 5 -29, 2008. Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 East Carson St Pittsburgh, PA 15203. And an upcoming exhibit at the Silver Eye New Works Gallery, November 5 -29, 2008. Silver Eye Center for Photography 1015 East Carson St Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Gallery Hours: Wednesday Thursday, Friday: Noon – 6:00 p.m. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Or by appointment. Admission is free.

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Rick Byerly Planet Yellowstone Photography Exhibit October 10 2008

I'm getting ready for the Planet Yellowstone Photography exhibit at Shady Side Academy. There's a reception for people I know as well as Shady Side Academy alumni on Friday October 10, 2008. Email me, rick@uniquetake.com, for details.

His new Yellowstone fine art photography website is http://www.planetyellowstone.com/.

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Fe Gallery Exhibit and Rick Byerly Returns from Yellowstone, Part 2

Today starts the Fe Gallery 250 years in the making exhibit which runs until January 10, 2009. The opening reception is Friday Sept 12, 2008 from 7:30 - 10:30 pm.

I will have an 11 by 14" color archival photography print on the wall. Look for a green and yellow water texture print whose colors actually exist in the thermal streams on Planet Yellowstone, a.k.a. Yellowstone National Park. More info on the Fe exhibit here.

Fe Gallery: 4102 Butler Street, in Lawrenceville. Pittsburgh PA 15201. 412-860-6028. Gallery Hours Wed-Sat 12 - 4. Map info for Fe here.

I'm just back from a second trek on Planet Yellowstone as well as a trek to Bryce Plateau in Utah, aka Bryce Canyon. Back early because the weather was especially good during the day and mating bison prompted me to accelerate my time in Yellowstone and venture into new territory in Utah.

The focus on my second Yellowstone trek was for the most part the patterns and unique colors in the thermal streams using various aperture settings and a tripod and the weather did not disappoint. I was able to cover more ground in the park with a rental car and did a lot of wandering off the beaten path and boardwalks to find colors I never came across last time. Those long hikes brought me back to a sense of being on another planet and wondering what new things would be around the corner, as well as grunting animals to boot. In one area I found myself in 115,000 year old thermal activity, the hottest in the park, which creates surprising colors and the stream beds have their own colors from deposits.

Easily the most amazing hike I've been on in terms of natural formations was Fairyland Canyon in Bryce. A nine mile hike with many rock faces which trace back to Paiute legends. The right time in the right light brought glowing rock formations forth in the images, pretty awesome. It's rewarding to capture images in the right light. It brings things to life like no editing in a darkroom, photoshop, or in-camera software can in my opinion.

Current and future shows/events I'm involved in can always be found here http://www.uniquetake.com/shows.htm

Rick Byerly

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Rick Byerly's Mud Dance and Next Yellowstone Trek

The Mud Dance image is from my first trip to Yellowstone from this past May/June. It's of a boiling mud pot. I'm heading back to Yellowstone on August 26, 2008 for around 29 days and then back on September 24 to prepare for an exhibit at Shady Side Academy.

If you haven't seen the words and photos from the 1st trek when I was travelling with 3 other solo trekkers check out
www.planetyellowstone.com/TheTrekkin4.htm

See you on down the road...

Rick Byerly

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The Trekkin 4 Land on Planet Yellowstone

Check out some images and words about the Trekkin 4 on Planet Yellowstone ( myself and 3 other travelers i met in a west yellowstone hostel in may 2008 and then went around the park with for 5 days. after that i camped solo for 12 days.)

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planet yellowstone: some words. rick byerly

so how can words and images match a journey to, on, within, and from planet yellowstone?

solo. no car. no stove. no preconceived plan.

wondering what it would be like to be amidst one of the largest super volcanoes in the world after longing for adventure after seeing documentaries a few winters ago. meeting fellow solo travellers from london and arizona at an old hotel west of yellowstone which hadn't opened yet, where we worked for our night's stay. meeting a swiss traveller via alberta, canada, who had a car. waiting and deciding when to enter as snow came down and then later entering as a group of four camping and touring the thermal sights. camping in the backcountry for several nights. two of the nights in a bone graveyard near blacktail creek and another in a bison filled meadow. the silhouettes of seven wolves up on the ridge on a cold night. bison and elk skulls and bones dancing near the fire. whiskey on hand to weather the rainstorms that night. terrain within the same few miles from rolling hills and rocks like scotland to sagebrush and other desert flora. pronghorns, elk, bison, and a coyote to boot. to imperial meadows to camp for the last afternoon and night as a group. creeks where trails had been before. being charged by a bull bison with few options for escape. saying good bye to the group as i started another journey, this one solo for ten days. cold, cold yellowstone winds and storm fronts from all directions. the sounds of the meadow at night, the howling of wolves and later coyotes on many nights and some mornings. the snorting and heavy breathing of bison five feet from my tent in the middle of the night. a lone black wolf on an afternoon scout coming down from the foothills. rain and hail and more rain. a lone wolf howling at night a few hundred feet from my tent as i held my breath. the lineup of odd sounds of meadow creatures at dusk and beyond. trudging through the mud to see microbes which had formed ethereal colored thermal streams of water and mineral deposits from the geysers which joined to form the pools and stream beds. watching the insects skipping on hot water, remembering this being the key to the start of all life. boiling white and then brown mudpots. all these thermal wonders off the main roads and boardwalks of the park, free of tourons and their shuffling feet and editorial comments. waiting out a snowstorm hobo style in a restroom, rigging the heater. being eyeballed by bull bison as they scratch their massive heads and horns on lodgepole pines to get at the pitch. laying on the ground recovering from a back injury and then lighting a fire as a bison digs for worms twenty feet away. mornings colder than the night, snuffing out sunrises. waiting for the sun late morning and afternoon as i scout for new areas to photograph. trying to know when fronts will hit and for how long and what directon they will head. countless pots of ramen cooked over the daily fire. later in the trek eating "food" right by the place where it stayed hung for most of the time up fifteen feet high, along with toothpaste, toothbrush, lip balm, sun screen and everything else with a scent bears might catch. talking to bears hundreds of times every day and night to give them a heads up. thinking of the people who have been visited in their tents for not packing and hanging the clothes they cooked in. burning a tick from my arm with fire the old fashioned way, wondering how long it was there. hitchhiking. laughing at the sight of all the thermal areas when the sun was out. huddling in the rain and snow, waiting for small windows of sun. feet hurting, back too. meeting characters along the way. camping in snowstorms. waiting in the rain, hail and snow for rides. more beautiful, soulful cries from wolves, victims of human ignorance. wincing as tourons feed those in the wild, corrupting to their level. in awe of the sights, sounds, activity and wonder. cognizant of cause and effect now more than ever...

so how can words and images come close? they cannot of course but they will have to do. for a photograph cannot render something as does the complexity of our eyes but it can reveal something we don't see ourselves. and words fall short trying to describe and recount as it cannot begin to tackle what all of our senses take in. an experience i had which no one has quite had and will never completely understand. that is the ultimate high. the ultimate reward.

rick byerly

15 days on planet yellowstone. stay tuned for more words and some images.

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Artist Painter Tom Riggle Minneapolis Art a Whirl 2008

I went and checked out the 13th annual Art a Whirl in Northeast Minneapolis with over 37 art galleries and hundreds of studios participating and saw some great work, especially painter Tom Riggle, images here http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?action=list&rid=102189 .

There was another piece I really liked and am waiting to hear the name of the painter. It was a yellow balloon on a string with a rust colored background.

The Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association seems like a very well organized group and has their artist members listed here .

Rick Byerly

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