I have trained and traveled with some of America’s premier photographers. Works by these top artists, as well as my own, are displayed at Bluewood Gallery, 36 W Jordan St, Brevard, NC, my newest venture. The gallery is a merger of two top WNC photography galleries, offering teaching workshops, seminars, custom printing, framing and canvas stretching.
Recently, as owner of Bluewood Photography, I have focused on teaching, facilitating seminars and workshops, and expanding Bluewood into a center for photography. I often speak at area camera clubs, adult education and conservation organizations, helping satisfy my main goal of sharing images and experiences from remarkable wild places with others.
On January 14th and 15th intern Hannah Davis and I visited Gary Carter’s certified Migratory Bird Habitat to photograph birds with some friends. Shooting took place from a blind, with Gary Carter creating a variety of backdrops and perches for us. Biologist Robert Smith also brought us some wonderful reptiles to photograph including a Woma Python, African Rock Python, and a Parachute Gecko.
A few selected images of models from our Bluewood Gallery “Portraiture Workshop” which featured Jon Holloway, noted photographer and teacher from Greenwood, SC.
Contact me at 828.883.4142 for information on upcoming teaching and travel workshops, or check out the events page at Bluewood Photography for more details.
Recently I built a rack system in my studio workshop to hold large canvas prints. Here I am drying 14 – 24 x 36″ laminated canvas prints simultaneously. This particular system can accommodate up to 18 large prints at a time.
Below is my new pneumatic gallery stretching machine. It is capable of assembling up to 60″ canvas prints onto stretcher bars.
I just finished printing and stretching 70 -24 x 36″ canvases with these and they turned out to be great time 
savers – both!
At first light in Monteverde, Costa Rica, two “early birds”, of which I was one, were rewarded with the initial sighting of the Resplendent Quetzal.
I photographed this gorgeous bird with my Canon 1D MkIV, 300mm f/2.8, with a Better Beamer fill flash at 1000 ISO, and felt fortunate to get this image of the bird which I am told is hard to find in this particular area of the country.
Other images from this 9 day trip to various parts of the country can be found on my website: www.hallooney.com.
This polar bear is waiting for the sea ice to freeze so he can cross the ice and hunt seals. Temperatures in November when I was there ranged to -20 degrees fahrenheit. Approximately one week after I left, the ice froze and the bears left land for hunting season, where they will remain until May or June when they return to shore and repeat the cycle.
During a recent fall trip to Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba with friend, Jim Kroshus, I spotted and was lucky enough to photograph 4 of the 10 member wolf pack we encountered just after sunrise in a remote area of the park. At the time, we were calling bull moose in rut. What I think happened was the wolf pack took our calling to be a likely target and were coming down the trail toward the sounds. Later, I talked with people who knew the area well, who commented that a wolf pack was believed to operate in the park, but was seldom if ever seen.
Wildlife photography has been my major emphasis for many years. I have had the privilege to travel widely and experience varieties of wild creatures in their native environment. With wide format Epson printers, canvas laminating and stretching capabilities, I have the ability to display canvas prints up to 40x60” in our gallery and other venues. I also do contract fine art printing and stretching for other professional photographers.
Recently, I have broadened the scope of my work to venture into portraiture and more interpretive photography. -
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Hal Looney : I have a new blog post over at my site: Migratory Songbird Photoshoot - http://hallooney.com/post/migratory-songbird-photoshoot
(Thu Jan 26, 8:17 pm).