New Gallery - CYLB Lac La Biche

From  Lac La Biche  Shane Tyler Adams 2011

Somebody lives here. I walked by the trailer maybe twenty times. I even knocked about half the time; nobody there. Separately, I saw the van in town a couple of times and chased it once; I wanted the red... The driver must have pulled into a garage or shed by the time I got my vehicle wheeled around the other way.  Gone. Then one evening, walking back from the lake, I found them all together. Red, green, blue and the summation of all light...

Lac La Biche is an installation-in-progress on my website. There is more to come, and as a collection it is in no way intended to be accurately representative of anything other than what caught my eye when I was there. If there is a narrative, it is supplied by the viewer and that is as it should be. The images trigger and elicit various responses in me, but those are my projections. Make of them what you will.

Enjoy,

Shane

The New Blog....

"Meet the new blog, not like the old blog, (krang!!)" - after Townsend. 

To all of you who followed the old blog, a big thank you. I was surprised by the number of people who emailed, called, and shouted from the cockpit (you know who you are) telling me they missed the blog after I took it down. It warmed my heart. Rates of Exchange may even make a re-appearance. Until that time comes, I beg your patience. 

I took the old blog down because it had become ungainly for the user.  Originally it was designed as an easy way to maintain content: mostly my photographs and the occasional written piece about whatever attracted my attention. The blog format worked, for a while. Eventually though, I wound up with a really long page that forced people to scroll forever to find the photographs that they liked. Access to collections of those photographs was not easy, and rather than continuously adjust, I decided to move to the gallery format. 

So www.shane-adams.com became more gallery-orientated but I always did feel that the blog was missed. There are few things in life that bring me as much pleasure as seeing and participating in wonderful things and taking pictures of them, only a few, mind you, and I'm not going to enumerate them here but, of those things, writing is certainly one of them. There are many ways to feel as alive, but writing is, for me, a pinnacle experience. With the blog there is also the opportunity to connect pictures and narrative in a way that a gallery presentation or pure prose cannot do in and of themselves.

So here we go. There are changes coming to the website proper as well. Mostly switching from Flash-based delivery to something that works on everybody's platforms, with faster-loading galleries and a more pleasant viewing experience. It is, after all, about getting to the images.

Speaking of images, there is some wonderful stuff in the pipeline. It'll be added bit by bit and, of course, announced here. Stay tuned.

Thanks again,

Shane