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OM Times Magazine : Yarn Therapist interview with Chuck Sutherland
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter"~Ansel Adams
The Cumberland Plateau is a landscape of wilderness and beauty. Nestled away, it covers land in middle and eastern Tennessee and into Kentucky and many parts of it still remain remote and wild. It is here, among this beautiful Southern landscape that we met Chuck Sutherland, a geographer, outdoor enthusiast and landscape photographer. Sutherland's photography stems from a very different origin than most other photographers as he uses his photos as tools to journal the places he has explored. His artful interpretations create beautiful portraits of the southern wilderness .
Sutherland's interest in photography began when his mother purchased a camera for him in high school. "I immediately took to using it as a way to express myself artistically" he recounts. Years later he has transitioned to digital media, the components of which are veryprominent in his pieces. In discussing his artful use of digital manipulations he says "Part of what I enjoy so much is teasing out what exists in the photo as data, but isn't visible." When asked about what he enjoys most about landscape photography he states "I have a horrible memory for when things happened, but I have an excellent mind for where things are at. The logical extension of that is that I can remember how to get to beautiful places, and I can use my photography as a diary to remember when I did it. " Sutherland says that hisphotography is a way to "take a place back" with him and enjoy it at his leisure.
His geography background plays a pivotal role in his work. "As a geographer, it's my job to know where things are." His background in the natural sciences gives him an appreciation of the landscapes he photographs. Being especially attached to the areas along the Plateau and the Eastern Highland Rim, Sutherland has experienced "stunning gorges, overlooks, boulders, rivers, waterfalls, cliffs, rock houses and natural arches." His enthusiasm for outdoors sports such as caving, climbing, backpacking and kayaking also play a role in his photographs and allowing him access to capture places that no one else may have photographed.
As much as he has a love for his work, Sutherland also realizes the responsibility that a landscape photographer must always be aware of. "It's not unheard of that a photographer increases traffic to a certain location and as a result, a place is vandalized or wildlife is damaged." He remains positive about the contributions his work creates in preserving what is becoming a rapidly changing, even vanishing landscape. "Photographers can (also) move people to conserve their natural heritage, mobilize people to clean up litter and dump sites and make a case to enact environmentally conscious legislation. " It is this idea that continues to feed his love of sharing his photography with the world.
You can find more of Chuck Sutherland's work at flickr.com/photos/chucksutherland
chucksutherland.blogspot.com/ and www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/chucksutherlandphotography
He can be reached by email at:
cjsuther21@gmail.com
Leila Howell Cook is a writer, fiber artist and activist who specializes in knit and crochet design. She uses her business as "The Yarn Therapist" to encourage others to pick up needles and hooks as a form of mental and physical therapy. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and five children.
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OM Times Magazine : Yarn Therapist interview with Chuck Sutherland
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter"~Ansel Adams
The Cumberland Plateau is a landscape of wilderness and beauty. Nestled away, it covers land in middle and eastern Tennessee and into Kentucky and many parts of it still remain remote and wild. It is here, among this beautiful Southern landscape that we met Chuck Sutherland, a geographer, outdoor enthusiast and landscape photographer. Sutherland's photography stems from a very different origin than most other photographers as he uses his photos as tools to journal the places he has explored. His artful interpretations create beautiful portraits of the southern wilderness .
Sutherland's interest in photography began when his mother purchased a camera for him in high school. "I immediately took to using it as a way to express myself artistically" he recounts. Years later he has transitioned to digital media, the components of which are veryprominent in his pieces. In discussing his artful use of digital manipulations he says "Part of what I enjoy so much is teasing out what exists in the photo as data, but isn't visible." When asked about what he enjoys most about landscape photography he states "I have a horrible memory for when things happened, but I have an excellent mind for where things are at. The logical extension of that is that I can remember how to get to beautiful places, and I can use my photography as a diary to remember when I did it. " Sutherland says that hisphotography is a way to "take a place back" with him and enjoy it at his leisure.
His geography background plays a pivotal role in his work. "As a geographer, it's my job to know where things are." His background in the natural sciences gives him an appreciation of the landscapes he photographs. Being especially attached to the areas along the Plateau and the Eastern Highland Rim, Sutherland has experienced "stunning gorges, overlooks, boulders, rivers, waterfalls, cliffs, rock houses and natural arches." His enthusiasm for outdoors sports such as caving, climbing, backpacking and kayaking also play a role in his photographs and allowing him access to capture places that no one else may have photographed.
As much as he has a love for his work, Sutherland also realizes the responsibility that a landscape photographer must always be aware of. "It's not unheard of that a photographer increases traffic to a certain location and as a result, a place is vandalized or wildlife is damaged." He remains positive about the contributions his work creates in preserving what is becoming a rapidly changing, even vanishing landscape. "Photographers can (also) move people to conserve their natural heritage, mobilize people to clean up litter and dump sites and make a case to enact environmentally conscious legislation. " It is this idea that continues to feed his love of sharing his photography with the world.
You can find more of Chuck Sutherland's work at flickr.com/photos/chucksutherland
chucksutherland.blogspot.com/ and www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/chucksutherlandphotography
He can be reached by email at:
cjsuther21@gmail.com
Leila Howell Cook is a writer, fiber artist and activist who specializes in knit and crochet design. She uses her business as "The Yarn Therapist" to encourage others to pick up needles and hooks as a form of mental and physical therapy. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and five children.
Tags: yarntherapist, leilacook,october2011, ripit, ripti, lessonsfrom, froggin, fiberarts, wool, cotton, crochet, knitting, omtimesmagzine, humanityheailng, arthealing, knittingtherapy, dezengodesigns, sacredspacestudio, humanityhealing, namaspirittn
Carduelis carduelis caniceps Vigors, 1831, type locality, Simla-Almora district. This Himalayan race is darker than paropanisi.
De,sc'ripti-on .• ----Male. For~bead, chee ~\s :and ,chin crilDsoll; upper
pluma,ge pale ashy-bro,rn, becoluing still paler on the rUlnp and
pur'e white on the upper tail-coverts; tail blaok, the two central
pairs t.ippea white, the t,,,o outerillost pairs largely \"bite .on the
outer webs froID the base; wing-coverts black, the greater eo, erts
broadly tipped with yellow, quins black, all but ,the ·first prinutry
with ,s, broad yello\v • patch on the bllse of the outer webs ·~
innel'most secondaries with the outer ,,'eb mostly 'white; throat
ashy-white; sides of the .ne,clt and head" breast ,and flank,s asbybrown,
more fulvous on the fla.nks ;abdom,en and under tailcoverisahnost
\vhite.
Colours ,of soft p,arts. Iris brown; bill fleshy-yellow, the tip
dark bro\"n :; legs and f(:let pale brown.
lIe&8Ur'ement.8,. 'fotal leu,gth about 140 mm. ;\ving 76 t ,o-
81 Innl..; taU 48 to 50 rom. ; tarsus about 13 moo.; cuhuen 13 to
15 mm.
Fem;ale similar to th'e male but w·ith less and paler crim,s,on ,on
the facie and less yeUo\v onthe\vings.
OARDUELIS. 151
Nestling. Above light brown with darker centres to the
feathers, below \~rhite or fulvous-white, spotted from chin to
lower breast and flanks with dark bro\vn; the wing-quills and tail
,,'hen they first appear are broadly tipped \vith fulvous; there is
no red or black on the head and the yellow patch on the \ving
is much slnaller.
Distribution. The Himalayas froln Gilgit and J{ashmir to
Kuman, Simla States and Garhwal.
Nidiftcation. The Himalnyan Goldfinch breeds over practically
the whole of Kasblnir except in the extreme East and, perhaps,
the.N ol·th-East. South it breeds as far as KUlnan, Garh\val and
tl'le Silnla Stat~s. Col. Rattray took its nest at an elevation of
only 5,000 feet but Illore cOlnnlonly it breeds above 7,000 alld up
to 14,000 feet. At the l()\ver elevat.ions a few' nests may be
found iu May but most eggs are laid in June on\vards, fresh eggR
having been taken on to the end of August, possibly a second
brood. The nest is just like that of the COIDlnon Goldfinch, a
neat little cup of fine roots and grass Inixed into a Juass of moss
and lined with seed down. Most nests are built in the QuteL'
branches of pines at froln 6 to 25 feet, frolll the ground and are
often very difficult to see. The eggs num bel' three to fiye and
are a very pale sea-green, occasionally pinkish, sparingly spotteu
at the larger end \vith pale dull reddish and lilac. A.. fe\" eggs are practically unspotted and, IDore rarely a fe\v are marked \vith altnost black. Sixty eggs average 18·5 X 13'2 UlIl1.: maxilna, 19'4 X 12·8 and 19·0 X 13'9 tntn.; Ininima 16'S X 13'2 and 17'0 x 12'2 mm.
Habits. A very common bird in Kashmir and, indeed, ovett its
\vhole range in suitable localities. It is resident ever.v\Vhel'e,
though it leaves the greater heights in Winter and avoids the
lower in SUlllluer. In Wintar it assembles in fioc}{s, often of
a gl'eat size. and is then very conspicuolls, feeding in gardens,
orchards and open spaces, attracting attention both by it.s beauty and its restlessness. In SUln fller, on the other hand, the floeks break up, it retreats to more secluded country and to the pinewoods and those who do not know where to look, or how to ]ook, for it pronounce it absent or very rare. Its food consists 11lainlyof tiny seeds of flowers, weed~, etc., its song is silnilar to that. of
the European Goldfinch, though less full and s\veet, and its
flight is direct and s\vift.
Waves of stunning blue gemstones crash sensationally against the sandy-golden setting.
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