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How the selection of photographs was made for On Texas™

I hope you find On Texas™ as interesting as I did photographing all over Texas for most of my adult life. I bet many of you will enjoy seeing Texas in all its uniqueness and not a limited stereotype based on the past. After all people in Texas helped send men to the moon and back.

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The process was straight forward as I first chose images that where made in Texas. This was the first group or edit and there where several hundred after looking at all the transparency archives of my life work. On the second edit I chose images that moved me; images that I really liked and images that raised questions. With the second edit group there where less but I am not sure how many. With the third and the current group of 137 images I only chose those that fit some how, that where strong and I removed any that did not go with the collection.

I think there will be another edit after I go through my negatives and add from the negatives to this collection of 137 transparencies. I am looking forward to completing the final collection of images including transparencies, negatives and digital captures that will make up the finished On Texas™ photographic essay.

The plan is to make a monograph with all the photographs including as much information as I can remember, find, authenticate and add to each image rounding out the volume. The information will not include f-stop, shutter speed, focal length of lens but may include film type or digital capture as the original source of the image. I will try to date each image because they were made over several decades and I believe dates help place what was going on in my life and the life of Texas and the nation.

When the book is ready it will be announced here on this website (On-Texas.com). I have no ideal how long it will take to finish the book so watch this website. You can also subscribe using RSS or your email by filling the form below on the bottom left.

 

Byron Rogers
San Angelo, Texas
USA

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All genuine Byron Rogers

 

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How On Texas photographic essay came about

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How On Texas photographic essay came about

First of all the photographs shown here where all made in Texas.

I was given a chance back in 2011 to spend time looking over all of the transparencies I have made in my life and it was an eye opener. It was almost like an out of the body experience or possibly I developed a heighten awareness of so much imagery. What ever it was I have been working on the body of work on and off since.

Up until then I owned a 4 foot set of light tables but during a three month period I had an additional 8 foot making 12 feet total. Having this amount of viewing space made a big difference. For the first time ever I was able to see groupings, images that work together, themes and things I did not know went together. It was truly a revelation.

 

I am embarrassed to say I had never looked over all of my images in one concentrated effort…

 

I am embarrassed to say I had never looked over all of my images in one concentrated effort like what happened back in 2011. Part of the reason was of course I did not have enough light tables to view many slides at one time and maybe because of this it never occurred to me.

Well let’s come forward to March 2014 because something important happened. I was given a chance to use a 22 MP full frame DSLR camera and 50mm macro lens along with my old Beseler Slide Duplicator to make digital files of the archive. It is working great except it will take a lot of time to get the job done. But I am really enjoying it and learning a lot.

To complete the On Texas™ photographic essay I must look over all of the negatives both color and black and white. I will be looking for Texas related images and then edit them down to the best or the ones that work with the photographic essay.

 

I started looking over the 6X6cm
B&W negatives and discovered…

 

I started looking over the 6X6cm B&W negatives and discovered I will need to make contact sheets of each roll in order to understand facial and detail differences between negatives. Most of my contact sheets were destroyed by water damage back in 1993. That is the bad news but the good news John showed me a way to make digital contact sheets yesterday which should work fine. I will need to set up my copy stand and use one of my light tables to photograph each roll. Then make a digital positive as a contact sheet to look over. This will take some time to make happen.

I am not sure what will happen next but I am excited about the possibilities. Watch this website for updates and more. If you have suggestions or a good idea please let me know.

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