Russell J. Young - Fine Art Photography

06/22/2021

This is a very sensitive instrument used by an Explorer, an Adventurer, an Archaeologists, a Miner, and a Collector of exquisite smells.. and his specialized tools of the trade..

05/30/2021

I was recently ask what I consider makes a photograph worthy of a fine art print. I don't search or stalk and environment for a photograph. It finds me. After I have spent a lot time in area, maybe days meal weeks the nuances become familiar. Perhaps it's the spirits of the land that reveal its beauty based on trust. Or maybe ones mind goes quiet so they can appreciate what is around them. Once I see and feel the mood that is the time to tell the camera and lens to convey what I see. And the most important part is what I feel. Im not sure this photograph will make a fine art print. I do know when I look at it I can relive that morning, the faint remnants of blue mist, the cool dew soaking though my shoes, the distant wood pe**er hamming a tree, the Redwing blackbird song or the elk scent lingering in the meadow mixing with the Cottonwood and Willow buds unfolding. If I can translate any photograph into a print that others and myself can wander again and again. A place where they immerse themselves and feel wonder and renewed, the this is the starting point of one of my fine art prints

04/20/2017

My dog Duncan and I spent a few days in silence watching the trees watch us. It was time to reset. No phone, no computers, no city lights and no other people. The last day the trees began to reveal.

07/07/2016

Exhibition announcement: Saturday 5 PM - 8 PM at Art On Broadway 2570 SW Broadway St, Beaverton, Oregon Please join me and other guest artist for “Minimal-just enough” and the reception for “On The Edge” a featured body of work by Nikki Dilbeck

06/23/2016

Join us for at 7:30 PM July 1st, for a exhibition opening, reading / music-slideshow from my In The Mist collation. Village Gallery & frame works in Multnomah Village. 7808 SW Capitol Hwy,

05/24/2016

A rabbit skull one of many treasures from a hike. The rabbit was probably killed by a hawk or eagle then carried to the ridge to dine on.

05/17/2016

05/15/2016

Wet with dew.

05/11/2016

I'm very excited to announce a reading for, "In The Mist" at Portland Literary Arts June 1st. at 7:00 pm http://www.literary-arts.org/event/in-the-mist-giving-voice-to-silence/

An ode to the ethereal, In the Mist: Giving Voice to Silence captures Oregon’s mist-clad landscapes, urbanscapes, and coastline in Russell J.Young’s painterly photographs. These images, reverberating alongside the poetic responses by seven esteemed Oregon poets–Margaret Chula, Cindy Williams Gutiérr...