Dan Nauman delivered his new sculpture, Diversion, to Edgewood Orchard Gallery in Door County last week. Before loading it into the truck we photographed the work at his shop. The work stands 88″ tall, 48″ wide, and 6″ deep. (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
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Dan Nauman picked up his prints. Where are the artist’s salons?
This morning Dan Nauman, of Bighorn Forge, picked up three prints to represent his Lynden Sculpture Garden Gate in a competition. I’d photographed the main west Gate for Dan back in early August of last year. Below – you can see the photographs Dan chose for the competition. You can see the rest of the shoot […]
A new Fireplace Tool Set by Dan Nauman at Bighorn Forge
Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Dan Nauman created this, 43″ tall, Fireplace Tool Set using mild steel, copper and mica. Additional photographs of this piece can be seen here. You can see more of Dan’s work here; and follow his blog here. (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Dan Nauman’s bronze railing at Lynden Sculpture Garden
On September 7th Dan Nauman installed the final terminus section of his bronze railing at Lynden Sculpture Garden. However we had to wait for the patina to even out across all the sections before attempting to photograph the completed railing. Last week I gave the afternoon light an opportunity to charm the railing; and this […]
New forms by Dan Nauman
Dan Nauman of Bighorn Forge continues to bring new forms to his hand wrought home furnishings. “There is no substitute for feeling the stone, the metal, the plaster, or the wood in the hand; to feel its weight; to feel its texture; to struggle with it in the world rather than in the mind alone.” […]
Cedarburg Garden Gate by Dan Nauman
Dan has been quite busy at his Big Horn Forge (we’ve also been working on his website for almost a decade). He had me photograph a recently completed gate for a stone walled garden in Cedarburg, WI. A fabulous gate for a fabulous garden. A gallery of additional views can be seen here. (click images for […]
The great lake Michigan and sculptural gates
“Adopt the pace of Nature; her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (click images for larger view) A week or so ago I had the opportunity to return to a subject I’d photographed last spring. This gate, created by Dan Nauman, fits so well into its environment that photographing it becomes very difficult during daylight. […]
Links and networks
How do we make the web we weave work for our clients as well as ourselves? It seems that new terms come into use every day. Recently we discovered the umbrella term “social media.” We’ve been using these media (e-mail, blogs, Skype, discussion groups, etc.) for years; yet didn’t have a term to refer to all of […]
Dan Nauman’s Iron and Kevin Meyers’ inspiration
Printing photographs of iron work by Dan Nauman bighornforge.com today. I’ve photographed Dan’s beautiful work for a number of years now, along with developing and hosting his web site. He’ll submit these prints to the National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals Association http://www.nomma.org/; for consideration in their Top Job competition. Simultaneously, I’m creating a dvd for Kevin Meyers, a motivational speaker http://www.mytruevision.net. […]