LensFlare 35 is a weekly show brought to you by Dave Warner. In this week’s episode, Dave interviews Canon Photographer Aggie Villanueva. Aggie lived in rural New Mexico’s Madrid/Cerillos area without water, electricity or plumbing, hauling water by hand, the only light the kerosene lamp, with no phones or cell phone. She spent those years roaming the mountains, sometimes sleeping on the ground under the vast, crystal expanse of southwestern skies; sometimes in her van.
In 2001 she moved to an even more remote sector, into a tiny log cabin in the foothill forests of the San Pedro Wilderness area, getting snowed in for most of every winter, but with the luxury of “water pouring right out the wall when she turned the knob.”
In this episode, Aggie talks about her nickname and background, why she decided to be so remote and what every photographer can learn from that experience (one that is clearly NOT for every photographer), things she learned from that isolation, her work, Aggie Logic, her virtual photo shoots, where her work is being shown, and how she uses social media to promote it.
List of Questions (PDF format)
Equipment, Software and sites mentioned in this podcast: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, Canon 1D Mark III, Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 24mm lens Adobe Photoshop, AutoFX Mystical Lighting, Sony Webbie HD Camera, Singh-Ray Warming Filter, Singh-Ray Neutral Density Filters.
Show Sponsors: ExpoImaging, Inc., ScanCafe
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