The Golden Calf
by Gary Holmes
Title
The Golden Calf
Artist
Gary Holmes
Medium
Photograph
Description
A very curious young white-faced black calf suspiciously observes the camera after cavorting around its mother, backlit in golden hour by the setting sun, with an interesting bokeh on the highlights from grass in the surrounding pasture, Bell County, Texas. The color palette reminds me of the glowing colors in "The Man with the Golden Helmet," painted by Rembrandt van Rijn or one of his students (accessible at: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/the-man-with-the-golden-helmet/NgGTJY5DC_fR5Q?hl=en).
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Gary Holmes, photographer: I have always loved to photograph nature, landscapes, abstract, and other found objects of interest. Although I have staged single and group portraits and still life photographs, I prefer the challenge of trying to capture the unpredictable spontaneity of things and events as they are occurring. I started with a Kodak Brownie as a child, but entered the world of real photography with a Canon AE-1 in the late 1970's. I have continued to develop my compositional and post-processing skills and have slowly acquired higher quality equipment that is now capable of putting those skills to their best use. I finally became confident enough to begin posting my work online in September 2012, and have successfully sold a number of my photographs on Fine Art America.
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June 3rd, 2014
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