honorable mention
Y. Hope Osborn united states
Photo © Y. Hope Osborn
title
Roundup
The Roundup barns encircle, representing shelter, protection, and endurance. They enclose within and without—like people, individual and part of a larger landscape. O constantly scan back and forth and away over landscapes to find these Arkansas gems. They are history, lived and my living them out.
When asking permission to photograph Red, my writer’s side found a story of a 13-year-old maiden’s marriage, living within the barn in a home with her husband, and eventual the now 94-year-old woman’s ongoing particular care of the barn she lives near still.
Relentless is made colorful by its playful stripes and two little roofed vents above and its red coloring. A stone entrance echoes historical structures in having a stone entrance over which a farmer can pass but livestock can’t.
To act easily and quickly in sometimes sudden stops in the middle of nowhere to capture barns, I use a non-professional Canon EOS M50 camera and basic lenses. Once I take my barns home, each one comes down to several decisions using Photoshop and Lightroom to bring out the barns natural textures and colors, what part of the photo needs to be creamed out to create the empty sky space surrounding each final project, what part of the barn do I leave in color, carefully outlining the details to be left alone, how to best represent the rest in black and white so it is not completely lost when I finally “encircle” the barns using an app not typically intended for professional art.
The pieces, currently 10, show well as individually or together in 12”x12” prints.
Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
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entry description
Once, I passed barns without thought. Now, I note these ordinary structures for extraordinary architectural variety of unnoted architects and as stalwarts of the rural. When all else falls the barn stands.The Roundup barns encircle, representing shelter, protection, and endurance. They enclose within and without—like people, individual and part of a larger landscape. O constantly scan back and forth and away over landscapes to find these Arkansas gems. They are history, lived and my living them out.
When asking permission to photograph Red, my writer’s side found a story of a 13-year-old maiden’s marriage, living within the barn in a home with her husband, and eventual the now 94-year-old woman’s ongoing particular care of the barn she lives near still.
Relentless is made colorful by its playful stripes and two little roofed vents above and its red coloring. A stone entrance echoes historical structures in having a stone entrance over which a farmer can pass but livestock can’t.
To act easily and quickly in sometimes sudden stops in the middle of nowhere to capture barns, I use a non-professional Canon EOS M50 camera and basic lenses. Once I take my barns home, each one comes down to several decisions using Photoshop and Lightroom to bring out the barns natural textures and colors, what part of the photo needs to be creamed out to create the empty sky space surrounding each final project, what part of the barn do I leave in color, carefully outlining the details to be left alone, how to best represent the rest in black and white so it is not completely lost when I finally “encircle” the barns using an app not typically intended for professional art.
The pieces, currently 10, show well as individually or together in 12”x12” prints.
about the photographer
Y. Hope Osborn is an author, photographer, digital artist, and editor residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Her published writing includes ecological experiences that educate and entertain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She relies on God’s strength to photographically document space and time of natural color environment; historic often dilapidated black and white studies of built; and more recently, where they intersect. Her absolute art is the fusion of photographs and texts of history and her story, weaving art with how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
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