Important News Flash: George Lovelace Has Found His Inner Artist
Forget our lack of sidewalks, crumbling water system, MS-13 gang problems, traffic nightmares, boarded up buildings, and Maud: George Lovelace has an exhibit right now at the Vienna Art Center.
HistoricVienna.com must attend so we can see the one thing George has accomplished this year.
Vienna's Lovelace Finds His Inner Artist
by BRIAN TROMPETER, Staff Writer
(Created: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:15 PM EDT)
http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2008/08/03/fairfax/news/ffx10.txt
Lovelace turned around and saw that the sun was casting a gorgeous, radiant glow on fall foliage across the Potomac River.“The rays of the sun popped that up unbelievably,” Lovelace said of the ruby-and-gold-leaved trees. “I felt like a boy in a candy store.”
Lovelace, a Vienna Town Council member who serves on the Vienna Arts Society's advisory board, is holding his first-ever photo exhibit at the Vienna Art Center.
The show features about 50 images, almost all of which are in color. The images, all in black frames, range from $35 for 5-by-7-inch prints to $125 for 13-by-19 shots.
The exhibit doesn't have a formal title, but “My Adventures with Nature” would be appropriate, Lovelace said.
Lovelace had taken photos over many years, but decided to get serious about photography three years ago. He took a one-year course from the New York Institute of Photography, which offered helpful Photoshop tips and stressed the need to learn by regular picture-taking.
Lovelace also soaked up technical tips from wildlife photographer John Shaw, and benefited from the writings of Freeman Patterson, a photographer who maximizes his images' impact by intentionally under- or over-exposing them.
Most of the Lovelace's photos are of landscapes and flowers. He is fond of shooting images at Great Falls Park and Skyline Drive, and tends to work around sunrise and sunset, when the light is warmer and sweeter and produces enticing highlights and shadows.
Lovelace also included images of a great blue heron taking flight, a dragonfly perching on a flower and a cat peeking out from slot between two weathered boards.
“A stroke of luck is all that was,” he said of the cat photo.
One of his works is a three-photo series of water droplets on a car window, captured during a traffic jam on the way back from Richmond. Lovelace was intrigued by the water's abstract forms and said he plans to expand on this theme with his next project, a series of ultra-close-ups of flower interiors.
The exhibit runs through Aug. 24 at the Vienna Art Center, 115 Pleasant St., N.W., in Vienna. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.
Assembling the show required considerable effort, but was an valuable learning experience, Lovelace said.
“It was exhilarating,” he said. “It was work, but fun. I really enjoyed it.”
For more information about the exhibit, call (703) 319-3971.
Comments
Slow news day at the Gazette. I'm going to call Trompeter and tell him about the blister on my thumb.
Posted by: The Internet | August 3, 2008 01:31 PM
when the light is warmer and sweeter and produces enticing highlights and shadows.
Sorry Trompeter but you ripped that line off from a film I did in 1977.
Posted by: Ron Jeremy | August 3, 2008 02:27 PM
Ron Jeremy:
Who knew you had any speaking parts...Now that's the real news!
Posted by: truth or dare | August 3, 2008 09:55 PM
HV, apparently, Scott at the Sun Gazette believes Vienna bloggers are mean...
SGN Editors Blog...
Viciousness in Vienna . . .
(Created: Sunday, August 3, 2008 5:36 AM EDT)
An outsider might not think that the Town of Vienna would be a hotbed of civil discontent, but it certainly does have a vocal, if small, group that opposes what elected officials are doing.
That type of running commentary even spilled over into a feature story Brian Trompeter did on Town Council member George Lovelace's passion for photography, a nice and relatively harmless summertime story.
Those who responded to the article on the Web site thought that Lovelace should be spending more time on town affairs, and that the Sun Gazette ought to be covering more substantive things.
"That's our George Lovelace for you; more concerned about his pictures than his Vienna neighbors," one responded.
And that's mild compared to some of the comments you can find on a Web site devoted solely to attacking the town establishment, with headlines like "Our Elected Leaders Are All Worthless" and the proposed solution that "every single one of them should resign." Or the headline about a Town Council member: "Laurie Cole: Morally Bankrupt & Dishonest to the Core."
As for the media covering Vienna, according to the critics, we're either incompetent or in the pocket of the town establishment . . . or both. Sigh.
I actually enjoy running through that Web site every once in a while, although I have to say it would probably be more effective if those who do the postings had a little stronger sense of humor and perspective. Most of the chuckles I get from the site are because of the overkill, not because the humor is intentional.
And now, I await the hate mail in response!
"hate mail" the SGN just doesn't "get it". The discontent here in Vienna is the direct result of the citizens getting fed-up with the absolute decline in the quality of life here.
Nice to know that Scott is an HV reader.
Posted by: The SGN Opinion | August 4, 2008 06:57 AM
I would expect that article to generate a lot of new readers for HV. You know, all publicity is good publicity.
Posted by: anne smith | August 4, 2008 01:44 PM
Scotty boy made sure to not provide the notes of who in Vienna Town Government was proposing to ban the taping of meetings. I would not say you are in the pocket of Town officials Scotty, I would just say you don't have a bit of honesty in your body. Let me repeat: your reporter Brian boy was at a work session at Vienna Town Council where no audio or cameras were present. Your reporter knows who in Vienna Town government proposed to ban the video taping of meetings. You to this day have refused to disclose that. Why?
So continue writing your cute little rambles, the evidence is out there about your motives and intentions: protect Vienna Town officials.
Posted by: Mr. Man | August 4, 2008 02:40 PM
I\'m just self-centered enough to think that the \"Sun Gazette ought to be covering more substantive things\" jab was directed at my \"blister\" comment.
If that turns out to be my only 15 minutes of fame, I\'m going to feel really jipped.
Posted by: The Internet | August 4, 2008 04:07 PM
Newspapers not in the pocket of Vienna Town Council? I'm still waiting to hear the facts about the laser show. Why are the newspapers mum?Also, no accolades in the Town Newsletter.
Posted by: Wyltn | August 4, 2008 06:33 PM
\"The Internet\" = TC
Waaaa I don't like anyone saying anything bad about Vienna waaaaaaaa.
I guess I'm open minded enough to know a joke when I see one.
Take your toys and go home.
Posted by: truth or dare | August 6, 2008 08:28 PM