Past Darkroom Gallery Master History
 | Mark Melnick Palm Desert, CA USA www.riverrunpictures.com |  |
| After 35 years in Hollywood making pictures that literally MOVE, I have transitioned into the equally exciting world of still photographs that move ME. Though I was formally trained in traditional silver and platinum emulsions and chemical techniques, I have discovered that the tools of digital photography challenge me to present a more personal interpretation of my subject. While a theatrical lighting designer, I absorbed the importance of light and shadow as essential elements of story-telling, and what I try to achieve in my work as a still photographer is Act One, as it were, of a story that the viewer continues and concludes for himself. Each step of the capture and post production process is a kind of exploration for me, and though I may have an idea of what a particular frame is about, it isn’t until I enter the “playground” of the computer and its software that the picture blossoms, literally develops before my eyes. | ||
Metamorphosis Singapore in Transition | Multiples "Rise Up Against Your Oppressors!" | Multiples Viennese Hideaway Honorable Mention | Pathways and Passages Morning, San Mateo |
In Stillness L.A. | Green Brothers, Vietnam '71 | The Environmental Portrait In Absentia Juror's Choice | The Environmental Portrait In Celebration |
ARTifact End of the Road | Manus et Pedibus Waiting for Einstein | Construct: Art in Architecture The Final Solution, Dachau |
In the Moment A Selfie | Chroma In Agreement Honorable Mention | Oddity In the Mind of the Creator |
Oddity über die innenstadt Honorable Mention | Oddity "We need more ice." | Curvilinear Salzburg Summer | Curvilinear Apartment Life |
War and Peace Brothers, Vietnam '71 | Natural Realm Succulent Quartet | Natural Realm Cattail Creek, Glass, Arkansas |
Still Life/Life Still Roadside Distraction #11 Honorable Mention | Far Away Places Opalescence | Wheels Cyclist, Copenhagen |
Blue In Case of Rain, St. Petersburg | Blue Electric Blue, Clarksdale, Mississippi | Juxtapose Fisherman's Prayer |
Juxtapose Balboa | Illumine Metropolitan Juror's Choice | Illumine Homage |
Love New Year's Eve | Love God is Love SOLD | Faces Sean, Vietnam '71 | Make Believe Arlecchino loves Colombina |
Real Life Cameramen, Vietnam '71 Honorable Mention | Real Life The Show, Vietnam '71 | Real Life Brothers, Vietnam '71 |
Color-blind Kate, a portrait | City Empire, 2013 |
