Jerry Greer Photography

12/30/2022

Clinchport, Scott County, Virginia

12/22/2022

12/20/2022

Reviewing digital color proofs before sending out to my longtime client in ColoRADo. This 2024 calendar is going to be beautiful!

12/13/2022

Planning my 2023 trips over the next couple of weeks. I’m excited to continue work on my Central Appalachia project.

12/03/2022

A long day of driving. A couple days of Florida might be nice…wish for a cloud or two though.

11/18/2022

This is a rescan of work for my Central Appalachia Project. The original scan was too different from the work of this project using Portra 400. I used Kodak Ektar 100 on this comp and I find that it's naturally too saturated. With this rescan I processed the photograph to be a closer match with the other photos of this project.

Copper Creek, Scott County, Virginia

Intrepid BLK 45, Nikkor-W 135mm, Kodak Ektar 100 (100)

11/09/2022

When I travel into central Appalachia doing research and/or photographing for my current long form project. I’m often shocked when I drive into towns that I remember as once bustling. It’s been at least 40 years since I’ve been through Keystone, West Virginia. Recently, I was near the area and I decided to scout out the location and maybe meet a few local residents. Time was short but I did set up a photo of the Keystone Prep Plant. I look forward to spending more time documenting the town and its wonderful people this coming spring.

11/02/2022

Making new work for my Central Appalachia Project.

Looney Ridge, Wise County, Virginia

Arca Swiss F 4x5, Caltar Type Y f/6.3 210mm, Kodak Portra 400

10/25/2022

Making new work for my Central Appalachia Project.

Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia

Arca Swiss F 4x5, Nikkor-W 135mm, Kodak Portra 400

10/15/2022

Surface mine, central Appalachia

09/15/2022

Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag is such a beautiful paper. it might be my new favorite. I printed a couple of artist proofs in 20”.

09/02/2022

This is a quick 4x5 grab shot of the Looney Ridge Mine in Wise County, Virginia. This mine is owned by billionaire and Governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice. Coal companies owned by Justice and his family have a history of violating environmental standards and not paying fines and fees. This mine, including two others, has huge reclamation costs associated with them, and it is possible that the state could be left with the reclamation cost.

This is a big problem that Central Appalachia states have to contend with. These billionaire owners (some are politicians also) can easily bankrupt the LLC mine, leaving the reclamation to the taxpayer and without recourse.

09/02/2022

I'm continuing to rescan and reprocess the early photographs that I took for my Central Appalachia project. I'll say it once again, Kodak Portra 400 negative film is just beautiful. It did render the foreground grass rather strong but it is pretty true in color.

Near Oven Fork, Letcher County, Kentucky

09/01/2022

This is an unreclaimed surface mine (aka. mountaintop removal mining). It is still in operation along the far ridges.

Near Dixiana, Wise County, Virginia

08/31/2022

Another photograph that I took early in my Central Appalachia project that I felt needed to be rescanned and reprocessed.

Lynch, Harlan County, Kentucky

08/30/2022

I'm still rescanning and reprocessing a few photos and I love the feel of this one even more as time goes by. Kodak Portra 400 is a near perfect negative film for this work.

Making work for my Central Appalachia project. Saint Charles, Lee County, Virginia

08/25/2022

Making work for my Central Appalachia project. Near Superior, McDowell County, West Virginia

08/24/2022

Making work for my Central Appalachia project. Near Dixiana, Wise County, Virginia

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08/24/2022

This is a rescan and process. I'm really happy that you can now see the blue sky as the clouds began to break through. I couldn't bring out this detail in the original scan.

Making work for my Central Appalachia project. Near Superior, McDowell County, West Virginia

08/19/2022

How about another for the weekend? This is a rescan and reprocess. A little information about this photo. This is part of an enormous mountaintop removal surface mine reclamation area. The sad thing is that they are restriping parts of this site to the southeast side. Notice the invasive autumn olives in the foreground. They are heavily used because they'll grow on crushed rock.

Making work for my Central Appalachia project. Near Carrie, Dickenson County, Virginia

08/19/2022

New scanning and processing techniques took this photograph to a new level.

Making work for my Central Appalachia project. Dante, Dickenson County, Virginia

08/10/2022

Making new work in black & white. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

08/02/2022

Making new work in black & white. Near Big Island, Bedford County, Virginia

07/28/2022

I picked up this powerhouse of a flash, Metz 45 CT 1, for my Chamonix Saber camera. This is going to be fun!

07/27/2022

Making new work in black & white. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

07/26/2022

Making new work in black & white. Near Big Island, Bedford County, Virginia

07/14/2022

Making work for ”Dust to Dust”. Near Davenport, Buchanon County, Virginia

07/08/2022

My friend and photographer/educator, Mike Smith hooked me up with this beauty. It’s a Chamonix Saber 4x5 rangefinder camera. I’m going to make some fun work with this. It was also great to spend some quality time in his studio looking at his wonderful work.

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06/27/2022

I took a couple of days and exposed some Tmax 400 in 4x5in and in 645. Now for some processing.

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06/21/2022

Making work for ”Dust to Dust”. Bonny Blue, Lee County, VA 22.05.06

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