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Rich Bergeman, New Work and Old Favorites
August 29 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Rich Bergeman, New Work and Old Favorites
August 29 through October 28, 2026
Artist reception on Saturday, August 29th from 1-4 pm.
The O’Brien Photo Gallery
2833 Willamette, Ste. B.
Eugene, OR. 97405
Phone: (541) 729-3572
The gallery will be open Tuesday through Friday from 1-5 pm.
Call to be sure we are open or to reserve a special viewing time.
https://www.waltobrien.net/the-o-brien-photo-gallery
It’s been about 10 years now since I converted a spare DSLR camera
to infrared. Five camera conversions later and I’m still smitten by how
IR has jazzed up my hitherto feeble efforts at landscape photography.
I’ve been a diehard B+W photographer since the 1980s, having burned
film through a succession of 4×5, 5×7, 8×10 and pinhole cameras,
mostly aimed at the usual suspects—abandoned buildings, old barns,
ghost towns, eerie interiors, etc—printing in silver and then platinum.
Occasional forays into straight landscape photography taught me how
challenging it is to master the black-and-white landscape print.
Infrared has become my secret sauce. Those vexingly muddled middle
grays characteristic of green scenery when photographed in straight
B+W hop off an IR print as sparkling highlights (sometimes too much
so). And those pale blue skies that used to swallow up the clouds now
show up as deep rich tones, setting off the clouds in brilliant fashion.
And now, voila´, I’m a landscape photographer.