Just to be transparent, when I cancelled my Paramount + account this week, it was an entirely financial decision. @paramountpictures.bsky.social
The newest installment of my podcast Lost in Conversation is an important episode in which I talk to the historian Richard Drake about the Decline of Historical Study and it's consequences. I hope you'll give it a listen.
Jazz in the Darkroom: With 125 tracks clocking in at 9 hours 18 minutes, iIt took me several days to listen to it all, but it was totally worth it. Amazing sax playing. My toes are tapped out. open.spotify.com/album/2IZkLO... #jazz
Some of my thoughts on photographing landscapes
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Today I released the first episode of my new podcast, Lost in Conversation. In this episode I speak with Eric J. Meow aka Conspiacy of Cartographers on the topic of “Wandering”. Do give it a listen.
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Bidding is now open for Potsketch 2025. Here's my drypoint etching "Lotus and teapot" edition of only 2. Could be yours with the right bid. All $ goes to Clay Studio of Missoula. e.givesmart.com/events/GZG/i...
Good dog. #handsoff
This is the workshop people have requested most. Registration now open. lelandbuck.com/2025-photogr...
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Today I shared a new short film on my Substack. It’s free for all. I hope you’ll check it out. open.substack.com/pub/lelandbu...
Registration now open for all my summer workshops. This 2-day Large Format workshop introduces you to the wonderful world of Large Format. Open to all ages, and all levels of experience and curiosity.
Visit lelandbuck.com/workshops to reserve your spot.
#photography #photoworkshops
Jazz in the Darkroom, March 31, 2025: Wayne Shorter, Adam's Apple (1967, Blue Note) Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey, February 3 + 24, 1966. Reggie Workman on Bass, Joe Chambers on Drums, Herbie Hancock on Piano and Wayne Shorter on Tenor Sax.
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I am offering three small workshops this summer. The first is a two-day study of Landscape. Registration opens April 1.
HTTPS://lelandbuck.com/workshops
Jazz in the Darkroom for March 18, 2025: Bill Evans Trio, Portrait In Jazz (1960, Modal/Post Bop, Riverside Records) Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York, December 28, 1959. Scott LaFaro on Bass, Paul Motian on Drums, and Bill Evans on Piano.
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Jazz in the Darkroom, March 11, 2025: Wardell Gray, Way Out Wardell (1956, Modern Records) Live album mostly recorded in Los Angeles Feb. 27, 1947 plus two tracks from Pasadena, April 29, 1947. An interesting album with strong swing/post-bigband, pre-bop vibes. open.spotify.com/album/3Sj6lD...
Thank you, David. My daughter wrote this Piano Trio and the recording was from a live performance at Bennington College. I think it suits the visual atmosphere of the film perfectly.
Coming April 1, 2025, a short film which I’m calling “A Wildfire Cine-poem” featuring music written by my daughter Lucia. lelandbuck.substack.com
Defend the U.S.F.S., BLM, and the National Park Service.
#shortfilm #wildfire #publiclands #savepubliclands #USFS
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
The list of things Canada has hit with 25% tariff today is impressive. Almost every product from Montana is on the list: wheat, barley, beef, sugar beets, even beer and whiskey. Wonder if how long Montana farmers will hold out before they turn on Trump?
Jazz in the Darkroom, March 4, 2025: Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago (1960). Also known as Cannonball and Coltrane. Features Paul Chambers on bass, Wynton Kelly on piano, Jimmy Cobb on drums, John Coltrane on tenor sax and Cannonball on alto. #Jazz #darkroom
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After watching about 17 seconds of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to the White House today, all I can say is that America has just abdicated any and all respect it once had in the world. Trump and Vance are without any question the least capable leadership in our nations history.
I’ve retitled my Substack to better fit the zeitgeist. It is now called Lost in America. Here’s my latest offering open.substack.com/pub/lelandbu...
Due to heavy snow, the opening for my show at FVCC in Kalispell has been postponed until Tuesday, February 25, 2025. Sorry for the inconvenience. I hope to see you next Tuesday instead.
Jazz in the Darkroom, February 10, 2025 -- Coleman Hawkins, Soul (1958, Predtige) Coleman Hawkins on Tenor Sax, featuring Kenny Burrell on Guitar, Ray Bryant on Piano, Wendell Marshall on bass, and Osie Johnson on Drums
#jazz
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Opening February 18 in Kalispell, MT:
Working the Land: Interpretations of Montana Landscape
An exhibition of photographs, intaglio prints and watercolors.
By Leland Buck, Visiting Artist Spring 2025
Flathead Valley Community College
Kalispell, Montana
I have tested a couple of sugar solutions. Sweetened condensed milk and Camp Coffee syrup. The milk is best through 230 mesh screen.
There is a process in intaglio printmaking (plate etching) called sugar lift. You apply a sugar solution to a plate, then cover with ground and submerge in water to remove the ground where the sugar was. I’m basically screen printing the sugar lift.
It’s hard to do in a Bluesky post, but I’ll write something up and share.
I agree. I miss the days when people had their own websites, and used RSS aggregators to keep the pulse of things. It was easier to discover new things, new people, new ideas. Search engines are ad spigots, social media are thought-silos. I want a discovery engine.
