Local photographer is featured Flathead Lake Festival artist
Sandpiper Gallery will host weekend festival at Sacajawea Park
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POLSON – Jay L. Cross will be the featured photographer during the Fourth Annual Flathead Lake Festival of Art hosted by Sandpiper Gallery in Polson’s Sacajawea Park.
Cross, who has shot fine art photography — generally landscape and wildlife — for more than 20 years, is a member of the Sandpiper Gallery and will be available along with other member and visiting artists at the festival from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday.
“His work is excellent,” Sandpiper Gallery President Olivia Olsen said. “In the world of photography, he really knows what he is doing. He spends a lot of time outdoors and waits endless hours to get the right shot.”
In the artist’s statement for the Sandpiper Gallery, Cross wrote, “I love being outdoors, studying the light, composing the scene, waiting for the right moment, and then capturing the image.”
After retiring from the “tech” industry in the summer of 2008, Cross turned has turn his full attention to photography and the art of photographic print making.
Cross and his wife Pat make frequent trips each year to Yellowstone, the Rocky Mountain Front and Glacier National Park in pursuit of that right moment.
“I just love doing it,” Cross said. “I love being out behind the camera. That’s my favorite thing, being out in the world, out in the field.”
From start to finish, Cross is in control of the entire process from original photograph to the final print.
“In my own work, I do the bare minimum. I don’t do much in Photoshop,” Cross noted.
Great skill out in the field is taken by Cross to ensure the image is captured in the camera correctly.
“Once I get inside, I don’t want to spend too much time in front of the computer. I don’t want to change the picture.”
Once post processing is complete, the real satisfaction comes in the form of the final print.
“The picture comes alive once it’s on paper,” Cross said. “There is great pleasure watching a big print come out of the printer.”
Cross’s work can also be seen at the Sandpiper Gallery, 306 Main St., Polson or online at http://www.lumen-perfectus.com.
According to his website, Lumen Perfectus is Latin and translates roughly as, “perfect light.”
