“Early Light: The Cades Cove Landscapes” is part of my remembrance of the foggy early mornings, the quiet bike rides to the fields where People of Cades Cove lived their simple life, worked hard, cried, laughed, and made their moonshine. During our multiple photography trips to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, like “Old Timers” I photographed the mystery of Cades Cove with my large format film camera.
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Early Light: the Cades Cove Landscapes by Joe Aker, Aker Imaging Gallery, Houston, Texas
Aker Imaging Gallery is proud to present the black and white landscape photography of Laszlo Perlaky, “Early Light: the Cades Cove Landscapes”. The show will open on Saturday, June 7th from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm and will close on June 27th. Laszlo will discuss his work at 6:30 on the night of the opening. Aker Imaging Gallery is located at 4708 Lillian Street, Houston, Texas 77007. Further information is available by calling Lyn Bolt or Joe Aker at 713-862-6343.
There is a magical hour for the photographer. It is a time when all is still and the light is soft and alluring to the eye. This magic moment has, since the creation of photography, been the time when the photographer is at one with the landscape. A time when looking through the camera at a scene is magical and exciting. It is the very few minutes between the dark of the night and the rising of the sun. It is a very short period of time and the photographer works hard to capture the image that will change in just seconds. Laszlo Perlaky has experienced this moment of early light many times and captured it so that the viewer of his work is instantly taken to that moment of perfect light.
Cades Cove is a special place in the Great Smoky Mountains. It is a place of a simple life where people work hard and laugh and cry. Sometimes they make moonshine to enjoy on a cool night. The beauty of their country is unbelievable. It is a landscape of contradictions. It is rugged and soft, it is lush and barren and it is friendly and harsh. But above all it is beautiful. All of this is captured by Laszlo in his photography.
During multiple photography trips to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Laszlo has captured this area of America the way photographers have been doing it for 150 years by carrying a large format 4×5 inch camera and using film. He is as old-fashioned in his method of capturing the image as he is in protecting the nature that he loves so much. He treats nature as his best friend and loves and protects it and saves by capturing its most beautiful moments. The viewer quickly sees this in every image he shows.
In a world of digital, there is still a wonderful quality to images capture on film rather than on a sensor. Laszlo has used film to captures the world of the Great Smokey Mountains. His experiencing of this beauty is transferred to the viewer in his magnificent black and white prints. The viewer is taken into the world of the early foggy mornings that you only see by rising before the sun. There is lyrical magic to his photographs that make the viewer stand and look and long to be there. After your first look at the beauty of the whole, you start to look at pieces of the puzzle that make up the whole image. Each is worthy of a photograph in itself but put together they make up an even more impressive treat for the viewer. Each captures a moment in time that is soon gone in the harshness of the full sunlight. They create a longing to have been there at that moment to enjoy for a few seconds the greatness of nature. Aker Imaging is proud to present the work of Laszlo Perlaky.
