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http://www.omniture.com --> Sections Home Page Local News AP News Blogs Archives Business Classifieds Event Calendar Forums Life Opinion Obituaries Multimedia Photo Gallery Readers Photo Gallery Sports Tempo Weather Road Cams Special Coverage 2006 Britt Festivals --> Shop Our Valley AutoFinder HomeFinder JobFinder Search Our Valley Special Sections Distinctly Northwest Readers' Choice Homelife Magazine Joy Magazine Oregon Golf Info Oregon Wine Info Other Publications Local Links Ashland News eSouthernOregon Newspapers In Education Personals Moving Here Movie Listings TV Listings Volunteer Customer Service Advertise With Us Media Kit Place Classified Ad Contact Us FAQ's Home Delivery Site Map --> Email Story to a Friend December 29, 2006 "Spiraling Universe" by Robert Jaffe From darkroom to digital Photographer Robert Jaffe moves his medium to another dimension By LAURIE HEUSTON Mail Tribune "Harmony," a collection of color photography by Ashland artist Robert Jaffe, will begin another year of fine arts exhibits at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center. The show will include a mix of Jaffe's work that ranges from older images to new ones and captures scenes of regional landscapes, close studies of nature, people and travel. Most of the images are large-scale, printed with colorfast inks on canvas. The exhibit will open Friday, Jan. 5, at the gallery, 40 S. Bartlett St., Medford, and run through Feb. 10. An opening reception will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7. "The connecting thread through my work is harmony," Jaffe says. "When people look at the work I think they feel a sense of unity in the world. It's something that I strive for, and something that comes naturally to me." Jaffe says that one of the best images is a new one taken of Crater Lake. Advertisement "It's a panoramic image. It's actually nine wide-angle photographs put together, and each image has a very high resolution which emphasizes the details of the crater," he says. The new image of Crater Lake took Jaffe five years to capture. "I waited to get just the right weather and sky," he says. Another photograph in the exhibit, titled "Spiraling Universe," also took Jaffe a while to get. "I kept working with roses and lighting to get the right combination of nature and artistic ability," he says. "I finally found the perfect rose and sat it in front of a window for lighting. It worked like magic." Jaffe works in two styles of photography: shooting spontaneous images of things going on around him at any given moment and carefully planning his compositions. "It comes from years of working as both a commercial and fine arts photographer," he explains. Another new image of Jaffe's is "Current of Life," which was taken at the Japanese garden in Lithia Park. "That one captures the fabulous fall we were having last year," Jaffe says. "I just looked down and there it was." The exhibit at the Rogue Gallery also illustrates the success that Jaffe has garnered during his 30 years in the photography industry. He developed his first photograph as a teenager in 1969 in his garage in New York City. As his black and white images emerged through the developer, Jaffe knew he was hooked. Later, he attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Calif. By the time he moved to the Rogue Valley in 1981, he had established himself as a professional photographer working in both the commercial and fine art fields. Since that time he has worked out of his Southern Oregon studio, building his portfolio to include local and national commercial clients and photographing the region. Jaffe began exploring digital photography about five years ago, and he began printing his images on stretched canvases about three years ago. He says that these images are among the highlights of the exhibit at Rogue Gallery. "The process is fabulous," he says. "I was a master printer in the darkroom, but the quality, color and tone (of the images) are superior to any of the results I got there." Smaller images by Jaffe also will be available at the exhibit. His work can be viewed at robjaffe.com on the Web. The Rogue Gallery & Art Center is a nonprofit community center that offers local artists an opportunity to display work. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. See www.roguegallery.org or call 772-8118. Would you like to respond to this story? If so Click Here to visit our forums. Advertisement Copyright © 1997-2007 Mail Tribune, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Website Feedback online casinos news Home Security Systems Online Casino Reviews Fundraisers UK Homeowner Loans Casinos Canada Cord Blood Banking Entertainment Guide Texas Electric Choice Compare Electric rates in Texas Windermere Van Vleet Trunks, Footlocker Men's Clothing Debt Help