Ansel Adams said it: ‘Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.’
Making no claim to ‘significant’, but feeling that he might just the same have amassed a ‘good crop’, Lawrence Bickford of Hancock will present some of 2019’s crop at the Hancock Town Library.
The exhibit will run from Feb. 15 to March 25. There will be an opening reception in the Daniels Room of the library on Monday, Feb. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Bickford’s interest in photography began when he was in high school, but the next 40 years of teaching in the mathematics classroom left little time for camera work. Now retired, he finds more time to chase the light. As he gathered photos for this exhibit, several themes surfaced. Moving water was one; long exposure was another.
“Consider long exposure. I love that moment when, after a wait of some time – sometimes a long time – the image appears on the back of the camera looking nothing like what I had seen with my eyes,” Bickford said.
Though he may not get out to photograph as much as he’d like, he does get out often enough to reap a respectable crop, and invites you to share the bounty of his experiences and vision.
Bickford’s work can be viewed at www.500px.com/lawrencebickford and at lbickford.zenfolio.com.
The exhibit can be viewed during regular library hours: Monday and Wednesday, from 2 to 6 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call the library at 525-4411 before your visit to ensure no special events are scheduled at that time.