FINE ART PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK: KAHANA RIVER, OAHU

©Kelly Fitzgerald.  Kahana River, Oahu
Silver Gelatin Archival Fiber Base Print
20" H x 24" W
Limited Edition of 30
$1,400 Unframed

This wonderful 90-year old North Kahana Stream Bridge on Kamehameha Highway is currently being replaced with a new modern structure designed to carry heavier loads and to help reduce flooding in the area.  The $13.3 million project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011.  I am so grateful that I captured and preserved this old bridge in my body of work this past June of 2009.  I find it to be heartbreaking that so many of Hawaii's old bridges are being torn down and replaced with modern structural steel designs that do not reflect the ambient landscape or Hawaii for that matter.  The old Hawaiian bridges have so much charm and history about them.

I have had the pleasure of walking across many of these old bridges on Hawaii.  There is this special feeling that you get when you experience them first hand.

Professional matting and framing is available for an additional charge.

This work was created by using an old manual SLR film camera and Kodak Professional High-Speed HIE Black-and-White Infrared Negative Film.  Sadly, the film is no longer being manufactured.  The traditional negative is scanned on a drum scanner to create a 300 megabyte digital file which serves as a vehicle for the color balancing, lighting, and darkening that was formerly done in the darkroom.  Once the aesthetic interpretation is realized in the computer and matched with the artist proof print created in the traditional "wet" darkroom, the image is then printed on fully archival paper.  This piece is part of an award-winning series called "A New Discovery".

A fine art photographic print by Kelly Fitzgerald
will beautify your home or enhance your place of business.

If you are interested in purchasing an original fine art print, please contact Kelly Fitzgerald at KelFitzPhoto@gmail.com or call (760) 670-6616.  A range of print sizes are available.  For more information, please visit the print information page on her website.

A percentage of sales from this print will be donated to a Hawaii non-profit conservation organization.

Mahalo nui loa.

To learn more about this award-winning body of work, please click here.

To learn more about Kodak HIE black-and-white infrared film, please click here.