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| 'Viktor 1' - 1986 snake |
In 1916, a German soldier named Franz Marc was killed in an explosion at the Battle of Verdun, in World War I. Marc was not only a solider, he was also a painter and key figure in the Expressionist movement and his life story is as much about what he accomplished, as it is about what he never had the chance to achieve. An artillery projectile ended Marc’s art. It wasn’t his choice to stop creating but the war to end all wars forced it.
The Blue Whitetail is launched, in part, as an homage to Franz Marc. The title of this blog is influenced by Marc’s masterpiece, The Blue Horses. Though an exploding shell of wartime was not what caused me to stop my creative art quest, other projects and life choices forced me to shelve my own work. Unlike Marc however, I have a second chance and have decided to exhibit my past and present work in this forum as well as explore theories and ideas on photography that I have been experimenting with for many years.
The Blue Whitetail blogsite is a fusion between full frame, 35mm photographic shooting and bow and arrow hunting. Over the last 20 years, through pursuit of both activities, I have discovered that the eye of the photographer seems to perfectly parallel the eye of the bowhunter. While a photographer edits within a rectangular frame, a bowhunter edits the entire landscape as he aims and hits the mark. This theory will continue to develop and evolve as this blog moves forward.
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| 'Circle of White' - 2011 snake |
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'D-76' - 1986 snake This is snake:
Name: Christopher 'snake' Nakis
High School: Rush-Henrietta, 1979
College: Rochester Institute of Technology, BFA
Photographic Illustration, 1983
Bowhunting: New York State since 1992
Equipment: Cameras Leica M2,
Leica M4-P, Canon F-1, Nikon F2-A
Lenses
Leitz Summicron
35mm, 50mm, 90mm
Canon
FD 50mm, Nikkor AI 50mm, 85mm
Bows
Xi
Legend Magnum, Black Widow PSR Recurve
Arrows
Grizzly Stick Sitka, Grizzly
Stick Momentum
Broadheads
Ashby, 315 grains
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