Landscape nominee

These landscape photos were taken at Zion National Park, Lake Tahoe, and Lamoille Canyon near Elko NV. "Kodak Aerochrome was a false color infrared surveillance film produced by Eastman Kodak for a number of different applications. It was most famously used to identify strategic military installations obscured by foliage."(*). As you can see, Aerochrome yields a very different and dramatic look. I enjoyed shooting a film that few other photographers employ. None of the shots has been post-processed.

(*) http://believeinfilm.com/category/kodak-aerochrome

Stuart Skalka has been based in Reno, NV for five years. He previously lived in southern California, Las Vegas, and New York City.

Stuart Skalka shoots B&W and color using film and digital cameras: 35mm, medium format and 4X5. His aesthetic is to do as little post processing as possible, except when he converts color digital images to black & white or oversaturates colors.

In 2019, through October, he will have exhibited in 16 art shows including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Wichita, LA, San Francisco, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Kansas City, Johnson City, Reno and Portland OR. Two of Stuart Skalka’s photos were published in the Abstract (June) issue of ArtAscent. He has had solo shows in Reno (2015) and Las Vegas (2013).

Stuart Skalka strives to expand the scope of his photography. He has been shooting with a 4X5 camera for the last year, and just took lessons from a large format photographer in Carson City, NV. In June, Stuart Skalka participated in a palladium printing workshop at the Weston Collective in Monterey, CA. The Weston Collective is run by Kim and Zach Weston, the grandson and great grandson of Edward Weston respectively.