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New Repository Home for Skip Hunt Images

June 26th, 2015

New Repository Home for Skip Hunt Images

Over the last few weeks, I've been deleting and moving much of my work off of some print-on-demand site galleries like fineartamerica.com & pixels.com (same as the former, just a different site wrapper), redbubble.com, saatchiart.com, etc.

Lots and lots of images still remain on those sites for the time being, but those images that I'm removing, as well as older images I want to catalog for reference, are being placed here on my main site.

I like to have a repository for myself so I have look up where an edited image was shot, what year, etc. They aren't all here yet. Many more to go yet, but this is a start to eventually having everything in one searchable location.

Most that have been removed from the aforementioned web site galleries, are all located in my new "Galeria" page.

For your pleasure, you can view them all HERE

New Skip Hunt Cover Page

June 26th, 2015

New Skip Hunt Cover Page

I've been toying with changing the landing page for the main Skip Hunt Photo site. Have a look HERE and let me know what you think! :)

Skip Hunt Limited Editions and Premium Prints Store Now Open

June 17th, 2015

Skip Hunt Limited Editions and Premium Prints Store Now Open

Over the last several years, most of my work has been available via print-on-demand, and on various products. Many of them still are, but I'm reserving some images as Limited Editions and Premium Open Edition. All signed. All inspected by me personally before they go out.

They're only available in the size I've determined for each image, and only on the media I feel best represents my work. For these first offerings, I've chosen a heavy, 308gsm archival water color paper made from 100% cotton. I may offer some others printed on metal, other fine art papers, and possibly acrylic.

I've started these out with a discount on the Premium Open Edition prints, but I've also generated a 20% discount code good for any order over $200.
The code is good until 06/23/15 07:01pm

ENTER THIS CODE ON CHECKOUT 8Z4XWU6 FOR A 20% DISCOUNT

I'm keeping the collection small, easy to browse, the ability to see the images large without any water-marking, and committed to only the best quality.

VISIT THE GENERAL STORE HERE

I've also got an audio book true story that I recorded and edited while in the desert of San Luis, Mexico. Read the product description for more details, but I promise you, it's an intense story. :)

More Limited Editions, Premium Open Editions, and Digital Products coming soon!

By Chance Series 14

June 1st, 2015

By Chance Series 14

When happening past the display by chance and catching a nice composition of images, I'm tempted to take a quick snap to reference.

Making it a rule that the composition has to be strong enough to stick in my memory long enough to recompose the images.

AppleTV hooked up to main display, and the screensaver is set to randomly pull images from my 1800+ image Flickr account. The screensaver setting is "origami" and either displays one image on the screen or it picks and assortment to arrange. Usually between 2 and 5 images at the most.

Every now and then, I'll look over and see images it chose to put together and go, "Oh wow! That's a really nice combo."

Noticed this combination of my images "Tavira Nets" and "Human" and "Pretzel Logic"

This #14 offering in the series is called, "By Chance Series 14: Tavira Human Logic" © 2015 Skip Hunt

"Tavira Nets" image was made in the fishing village of Tavira, Portugal in 2003. "Human" is an abstract texture in stone formations on the coast of South Africa at Coffee Bay. And "Pretzel Logic" was made recently this year at Coney Island in Brooklyn, NY.

What caught my eye in this composition was the feminine human form in the stone, with what looks like it could be fishnet stockings just above it, juxtaposed with an orthodox Hacidic boy in front of a carnival poster of a pretzel. Everything seems to imply pleasure, but with a hint of the forbidden.

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By Chance Series 13

June 1st, 2015

By Chance Series 13

When happening past the display by chance and catching a nice composition of images, I'm tempted to take a quick snap to reference.

Making it a rule that the composition has to be strong enough to stick in my memory long enough to recompose the images.

AppleTV hooked up to main display, and the screensaver is set to randomly pull images from my 1800+ image Flickr account. The screensaver setting is "origami" and either displays one image on the screen or it picks and assortment to arrange. Usually between 2 and 5 images at the most.

Every now and then, I'll look over and see images it chose to put together and go, "Oh wow! That's a really nice combo."

Noticed this combination of my images "Shesus" and "Spear of Destiny"

This #13 offering in the series is called, "By Chance Series 13: Shesus of Destiny" © 2015 Skip Hunt

The female face was of a girl I met in Panajachel, Guatemala about 20 years ago. The Jesus face was from a cemetery in Solola, Guatemala. I thought her face looked like how I imagined Gaia looked in my mind's eye. Combined the male and female godheads into one to mess around with gender perception.

The abstract wall texture on the right was made on the street in Cape Town, South Africa several years ago. I think I called it "Spear of Destiny" because the dripping cut at the bottom right reminded me of the paintings of Christ where he's been impaled by a Roman soldier.

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By Chance Series 12

June 1st, 2015

Continuation #12 of the "By Chance" Series:

When happening past the display by chance and catching a nice composition of images, I'm tempted to take a quick snap to reference.

Making it a rule that the composition has to be strong enough to stick in my memory long enough to recompose the images.

AppleTV hooked up to main display, and the screensaver is set to randomly pull images from my 1750+ image Flickr account. The screensaver setting is "origami" and either displays one image on the screen or it picks and assortment to arrange. Usually between 2 and 5 images at the most.

Every now and then, I'll look over and see images it chose to put together and go, "Oh wow! That's a really nice combo."

Noticed this combination of my images "Nanciyaga" and "Marfa Windmill 2" and "Zebra"

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This #12 offering in the series is called, "By Chance Series 12: Nanciyaga Marfa Zebra"

© 2015 Skip Hunt

The colorful boats were at an eco lodge called Nanciyaga near Catemaco, Mexico. The windmill was just outside of Marfa, Texas. The zebras where imaged from a helicopter in Port Alfred, South Africa.

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By Chance Series 11

January 9th, 2015

Continuation #11 of the "By Chance" Series:

When happening past the display by chance and catching a nice composition of images, I'm tempted to take a quick snap to reference.

Making it a rule that the composition has to be strong enough to stick in my memory long enough to recompose the images.

AppleTV hooked up to main display, and the screensaver is set to randomly pull images from my 1750+ image Flickr account. The screensaver setting is "origami" and either displays one image on the screen or it picks and assortment to arrange. Usually between 2 and 5 images at the most.

Every now and then, I'll look over and see images it chose to put together and go, "Oh wow! That's a really nice combo."

Noticed this combination of my images "Smoke Stax" and "Robe" and "The Light Switch at the End of the Tunnel"

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This #11 offering in the series is called, "By Chance Series 11: Robed Switch Stax"

© 2015 Skip Hunt

The robe is a close up of a Buddhist monk's robe hanging out to dry in Luang Prabang, Laos. The smoke stacks are at the old power plant in Austin, Texas. The light switch was in a budget Oaxaca Mexico hotel.

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Cocky

December 30th, 2014

The images of the South African resort were complete and I was free to roam the country in a little pickup truck provided by the client. It was part of the arrangement in lieu of a little less financial compensation for the gig, but the extra adventure as as good as gold as far as I was concerned.

It’d been nearly a month at the high-end wildlife resort and I was itching to get out on the adventure portion of the trip. The client had been so good to me, but the white South African staff exposed so much blatant racism on a daily basis, that I was starting to feel sick to my stomach.

The gig was going so well that it was surely going to turn into several lucrative years and there was already talk of my next assignments. I tried to look away at how the black staff was treated, and just told myself “that’s just the way it is here… you’re getting paid and treated well… just keep your mouth shut and everything will be fine. Besides, Apartheid has only been finished a few years so it’ll likely just take some time before the social culture catches up.”

At least, that’s what I told myself… but the reality was that most of the VIP guests, owner, investors, etc. were wealthy “one-percenter” types from the Southern U.S. They were all hard-core conservative republican types who loved the Bush/Cheney regime and lower taxes. I can’t even bring myself to utter some of the things I heard coming out of their mouths while having too many drinks, but it wasn’t pretty. In short, the whole “it’s a different culture” argument didn’t really hold water.

What could I do? It was a dream job that was almost certainly going to lead to more sweet assignments. And yet, the dirty sickness persisted in my guts.

Mostly kept my mouth shut, but eventually I’d slip up after a little too much vino and start telling them what I really thought of their views. It seemed even more disgusting that they were also proudly wearing their Christianity on their sleeves. How could they gleefully rally behind their lackey politician dog’s of war, pocket public monies in the form of industrial war complex profits, send the children of the less fortunate off to fight and die to protect their financial interests, all while claiming to be devout Christians?

Maybe the money was just too good and they were just telling themselves lies to justify it? Much like I was?

It became painfully clear to me that I didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to keep up this charade. More and more I’d let my honest opinions slip out and it was clear I wasn’t “one of the boys”. At first it was just an honest opinion or two blurted out over drinks, and then while I was practicing driving on the other side of the road, I’d pick up the black staff who’re waiting on the roadside outside of the resort and take them to the townships (slums) where they lived. Often it’d take me 3 or 4 trips to get them all home for the evening.

I don’t know if I was being cocky about it, or just trying to do something to ease my own hypocrisy so that I could sleep at night.

When the the young, lilly-white, blond-haired concierge who was in charge of the staff got wind of what I was doing while allegedly practicing driving on the left side of the road, she got very angry with me. She screamed that it wasn’t acceptable and that the truck I’d been using would have to be disinfected and hosed down.

Eventually, I was free from the place and out on my own. I took every chance I could to pick up just about anyone who needed a lift on the side of the road without regard for their skin color.

After spending a few nights in a low-end backpacker hostel on the Northeast coast of South Africa around Coffee Bay, one of the staff girls asked me where I was off to next. I told her my trip was about over and I needed to return the truck to the resort before flying back to the U.S. She asked if I’d be passing through Port Elizabeth on the way. I told her I was.

“Please master, could I please ride along with you to visit my family?”

“As long as you don’t call me ‘master’ then off course! I’d love the company.”

I think her name was Sheila. She seemed a bit uncomfortable at first and surprised that I’d so easily agree to let her ride with me. She asked if it was normal for a black person to be riding with a white person in the United States. I told her is was certainly, but that it wasn’t always that way. And, that it would eventually be that way in South Africa too.

Rolling over the rolling hills that hugged the cliffs that hugged the jagged Coffee Bay, I noticed some boys all playing by the roadside and striking poses like cocky rap stars near some round huts near the roadside. I asked Sheila if she minded that I stop to make an image or two before we continued.

As I framed up the scene, I noticed a rooster insisting he not be left out of the frame.

Perfect. :)

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By Chance Series 10

December 18th, 2014

Continuation #10 of the "By Chance" Series:

When happening past the display by chance and catching a nice composition of images, I'm tempted to take a quick snap to reference.
Making it a rule that the composition has to be strong enough to stick in my memory long enough to recompose the images.

AppleTV hooked up to main display, and the screensaver is set to randomly pull images from my 1750+ image Flickr account. The screensaver setting is "origami" and either displays one image on the screen or it picks and assortment to arrange. Usually between 2 and 5 images at the most.

Every now and then, I'll look over and see images it chose to put together and go, "Oh wow! That's a really nice combo."

Noticed this combination of my images "Chicle" and "Joshua" and "Tickle Me" and "Ganesh Spoon"

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This #10 offering in the series is called, "By Chance Series 10: Joshua Tickled Ganesh's Chicle"

© 2014 Skip Hunt

The gumboil machine was in Solola, Guatemala. The Joshua tree was in Joshua Tree National Park, California. The cactus was in Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, Arizona. And, the crystal on a spoon was made in Austin, Texas.

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By Chance Series 9

December 18th, 2014

Continuation #9 of the "By Chance" Series:

When happening past the display by chance and catching a nice composition of images, I'm tempted to take a quick snap to reference.

Making it a rule that the composition has to be strong enough to stick in my memory long enough to recompose the images.

AppleTV hooked up to main display, and the screensaver is set to randomly pull images from my 1750+ image Flickr account. The screensaver setting is "origami" and either displays one image on the screen or it picks and assortment to arrange. Usually between 2 and 5 images at the most.

Every now and then, I'll look over and see images it chose to put together and go, "Oh wow! That's a really nice combo."

Noticed this combination of my images "Veladoras" and "Sailor Takes Warning" and "Burn Out"

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This #9 offering in the series is called, "By Chance Series 9: Sailor's Veladora Burnout"

© 2014 Skip Hunt

The candles where from a Panajachel, Guatemala church The red sunrise was in Jacksonville, Florida. And, the burnout is from a Carlsbad, New Mexico motorcycle rally.

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