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Shows and Lectures

Display at the Olive Hyde Gallery

I will have 5 pieces there from May 2nd to May 31st

Please come by and join me at the opening reception...

Opening - Friday May 2nd from 7:00 to 9:00 PM

I will be there from 7 to around 8:30 so please come on out and enjoy some buffet table and art!

Olive Hyde Gallery
123 Washington Blvd
Fremont, CA
Gallery: 510-791-4357
CT Studio: 510-742-0548

Map to Olive Hyde Gallery

Fremont Art Association Open Studios

May 31st and June 1st 10am to 5pm • See a large selection of my work at discounted prices!

I have over a hundred pieces in stock ranging from 20 inches to 6 feet in size.

These pieces are gallery deep wrapped canvas and lamiframed smooth art paper prints. All are ready to hang.

I will be selling some of my posters very inexpensively for those that want to economize but still have a piece of art.

Stop by my studio at 34670 Calcutta from 10-5 and get a piece at a nicely discounted price.

If you have questions my number is 510-742-0548.

See you here!

Map to my Studio

FAA Artist Showcase - Photographs by Cooksey-Talbott

See a large body of my new and old work on canvas and laminated panels

I will be showing a collection of over 60 pieces at the FAA Gallery from the 9th through the 24th of February for their first quarter artist showcase.

Pano of FAA Q1 Artist Showcase

Thanks to all those folks that came out for the reception.

Please take a second during the next few weeks, stop by the gallery and see some of my pictures of the Fremont Hills and the Sierra.

FAA Gallery
37659 Niles Blvd
Fremont, CA 94536
510-792-0905

Or call my studio for information at 510-742-0548

Third Saturdays Photo Club

Fun Photo Field Trips and Workshops - Beginner to Advanced

Join us on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 12:00 for some photographic instruction and field trips for digital and film photographers. Field trip days go on through the afternoon.

If you are not an FAA member and would like to see what it is about come on by and attend a free introductory meeting. FAA membership is a whopping 25.00 a year.

Download Third Saturdays Photo Group Description and Meeting Topics

Join our Yahoo group FAADPG to hear about upcoming fieldtrips and participate in our online discussion.

Calendar of Classes and Third Saturday Activities

Here is the Google Calendar that is the master calendar for the FAA Gallery.

FAA Gallery Overall Calendar

Meetings are at the FAA Gallery 37659 Niles Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94536

For more information call Cooksey at 510-742-0548

Fremont Library Show

Juried show at the Fremont Library

I have one piece in this show, it's the classic black and white shot of the face of Half Dome in Yosemite from 1976.

This show runs through December 8th...

There will be an opening for the show on Friday November 9th from 6:30-8:00PM in the Fukaya room at the Fremont main library.

I will attend from 6:30 to 7:00ish.

Hope to see you there!!!

FAA Gallery

October 15th through Jan 1

I have a number of pieces in this group show including some smaller prints and several 31" verto-ramas that are ideal for gifts!

The reception is on Saturday the 27th from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon.

I will attend for a few hours from 2ish to 4ish.

FAA Gallery 37659 Niles Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94536 Phone: 510-792-0905

Petrolia General Store

Now has Lost Coast Posters on sale...

The General Store in beautiful downtown Petrolia California now has prints of my Lost Coast panoramas as posters.

Stop by if you are cruising around on the Lost Coast!

Here is a map of the area...

Lost Coast Photos

A work in progress gallery of photos from the north coast

I was lucky to get a place to stay from a friend in Petrolia California this April. She has a house there that she rents out and it is beautiful, here is a link to her site Petrolia Palms.

From there I was able to access the remote Lost Coast trailhead, the Mattole river delta and have the opportunity to ride the Wildcat up to Ferndale.

Here is a work in progress gallery of some of the images that I captured on the trip.

Link to Pictures...

The Return of Virtual North Beach

A photo walk I made of San Franciscos North Beach

In 1996 digital photography was still not there...

But I couldnt resist when a friend loaned me his camera. I made a few hundred pictures over the course of a day in which I carefully (sortof) walked North Beach. Then I took the pics home and wrote a map generator on mac that allowed me to build a matrix of image map linked n-way nodes.

Try it out! wave your mouse around the edges of the pictures to see which directions you can go... It is like an early Dungeons and Dragons game maze.

Visit Virtual North Beach

Photographing and Hiking in Sonora Pass

My TOPO .tpo map of the Sonora Pass with Hiking routes and Trail Head Directions

Last year I started using the National Geographic TOPO program and while I found it to be a poorly written piece of software it is usable. This map requires the California State version of the software and version 3 or greater.

I have been putting my notes, trail and trail head info into a map of the pass and you might enjoy looking at it if your are a TOPO user and are thinking of going hiking or photographing in that area.

I have included a little commentary on each hike and will revisit this document as the summer wears on...

We go to Camp Blue at the Lair for our base camp. This is is the UC Berkeley Alumni Association camp near Pinecrest Lake.

Here is a link to my TOPO .tpo Map of Sonora Pass Hiking and Trailheads

Contents

Display at the Olive Hyde Gallery

I will have 5 pieces there from May 2nd to May 31st

Fremont Art Association Open Studios

May 31st and June 1st 10am to 5pm • See a large selection of my work at discounted prices!

FAA Artist Showcase - Photographs by Cooksey-Talbott

See a large body of my new and old work on canvas and laminated panels

Third Saturdays Photo Club

Fun Photo Field Trips and Workshops - Beginner to Advanced

Fremont Library Show

Juried show at the Fremont Library

FAA Gallery

October 15th through Jan 1

Petrolia General Store

Now has Lost Coast Posters on sale...

Lost Coast Photos

A work in progress gallery of photos from the north coast

The Return of Virtual North Beach

A photo walk I made of San Franciscos North Beach

Photographing and Hiking in Sonora Pass

My TOPO .tpo map of the Sonora Pass with Hiking routes and Trail Head Directions

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Web Site by Cooksey-Talbott Studio

Fine art photography, free desktops and free e-cards of California by master nature photographer Cooksey-Talbott. Hundreds of beautiful photographs are displayed for sale online as raw or ready to hang images.

Cooksey-Talbott Gallery is an online e-commerce gallery of nature photographs. The collection includes pictures of the High Sierra, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Yosemite, Trinity Alps, Sonora Pass, Santa Barbara Hills, East Bay Hills and Garin Park as well as hundreds of different waterfalls. Many of the images are from medium and large format film taken with the Mamiya RB-67 and a variety of 4x5 view cameras. Some of the more recent work is shot with a Nikon D200. We offer archival quality prints in a wide variety of sizes and on different media. We print on a variety of heavy art papers and canvas using an Epson 9600 printer with UltraChrome Photo Black Pigmented inks.

Ralph Cooksey-Talbott Thomas has been working as a photographer since 1972 when he moved to California from Michigan. During the 1970’s he studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite. Ansel published one of his photographs in the portfolio section of his book "Polaroid Technique Manual." Ansel and Orah Moore, another of Ansel’s students, suggested that he shorten his name to Cooksey-Talbott, and that is the name he has worked under since. Cooksey also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the San Francisco Academy of Art. He has lectured in photography at the U.C. Berkeley Extension, Studio One in Oakland and at Santa Barbara City College.