The Blair Goodwin Gallery / Color & Light Editions
Point Reyes Visions
Guidebook with Map

News Flash! In the S.F. Chronicle, this really nice mention by Tom Stienstra...

Unveil the outdoors by wrapping up a book.

Capturing a Bay Area jewel: "Point Reyes Visions." The book made it to my coffee table in my office (no small feat). When confounded when a story falls through, I open it up and the beautiful photography is like I've been hit with a tranquilizer dart. There's hardly an inch of Point Reyes I haven't seen and the slick, color photos not only capture the place, but are like windows looking at past adventures. Sections on adjacent Tomales Bay and Mount Tamalpais are a bonus to the jewel-quality photos of the Bay Area's favorite national park. $29.95. pointreyesvisions.com. –read the full story at Tom Stienstra ©San Francisco Chronicle 12/21/2008

Please click here to go to the book order page which is linked to paypal. It is in paperback for $24.95 or in cloth (hardbound) for $39.95. Both are signed by the authors. We can UPS or Fed Ex the books before Xmas.

News from Point Reyes National Seashore

Park campgrounds are extra full this week and next; about a 5% raise over last year - call ahead to check on availability.  All visitor centers are open over the holiday weekend.

Time to breathe  - a positive report from the fish crew!  Smolt trapping (one year old fish - ready to go to the ocean) found 144 coho in Olema Creek and 8 in Redwood Creek at Muir Woods!  Two coho fry (newly hatched, just finished living off their egg sacs) in Olema Creek indicates spawning success from this past winter.  Monitoring will continue throughout April.

A Yellow billed Loon joined its less exotic cousin loons in Tomales Bay near Miller County Park (Nicks Cove).  Birders watching quail at Bear Valley also noted a bobcat at the Horse Ranch snacking on a mouse!

Wildflowers continue to bloom especially with the extra dollop of rain this week!  Poppies and lupine in the fields at Bear Valley.  Tidy tips just beginning at Chimney Rock along with Baby Blue eyes!  Creamy yellow wallflowers fragrance the steps at the Lighthouse.  Many species coming out.

Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22 with a special weed identification training and hike.  At noon in the Red Barn Classroom, park staff will show slides off invasive species and then lead a hike at Abbots Lagoon from 1:00 - 4:00 pm to look for plants out of place. Bring lunch and for further information (415) 331-0639.

Shuttle Bus service ends this weekend; Easter Sunday will be the last day of service for this years season.

The authors of the best-selling Point Reyes Visions have expanded their horizons to encompass the entirety of California. Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin bring a unique view of the state with the images and text in their new book, California Trip.

Travelling thousands of miles throughout the state, they have captured its spirit with photographs that range from surfers, farm workers and movie stars to exquisite pictures of California’s deserts and mountains. This is an unusual book for the depth of perspective it gives the viewer of its cultural and natural landscapes.

From the hippies and the protests of the sixties to California today-the authors were there with cameras and a reporter’s notebook, recording vital details of California’s unique place in the world. Goodwin and Blair weren’t just reporting; they were deeply involved, freezing and frying in the mountains and deserts, demonstrating against the wars, dancing at concerts, always observing.

California has been brought to life–its people, craziness and peak moments of beauty and truth. The content is honest and revealing, breaking new ground for a California picture book by including ignored but important subjects, like earthquakes, immigration, gay and lesbian rights, the rise of organic farming to name a few.

California is a place where freedom still thrives. If you are interested in a nontraditional yet reality-based view of California, this book will turn your head.

Blair and Goodwin created this large format artist’s book in their live/work studio. It is 11x11 inches, clothbound, with 300 pages and 600 photographs. This heralds a new kind of book: where artists can take their project all the way to press and intensify their work through each stage. They photographed, wrote, designed, scanned the book. It was a long-term effort of almost 40 years. The printer used a special printing technique to print the book with no halftone dots, but rather microscopic speckles and ultra bright inks.

Web order books are signed by the authors and are discounted to $39.95 for the next few weeks to introduce it to our web visitors. Or call us at 415 663-1616 for the same deal. In stores it is $49.95

Reviews of California Trip

Black & White Magazine Honors Us!

Kathleen Goodwin's photograph Home Birth was selected for a Gold Award in the Photojournalism / Documentary category.The image is included in Black and White Magazine's Special Issue, November, 2007. Altogether, 830 entries and 5493 images were received—She feels truly honored to have reached the top of such a tall pyramid!

Richard Blair's New York City street photos ran as a spotlight feature in the August issue.

Here is a link to the feature as a PDF

Heres a link to more images of New York in the late sixties

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