Ordover Gallery
Abraham Ordover is one of the photographers whose pictures can be found at the Ordover Gallery, which was apparently named after him. That’s because he formed a partnership with the San Diego Natural History Museum in 2006, leading to the opening of said gallery on the Museum’s 4th floor. Before changing his career, he was a Yale-educated law professor, attorney, and mediator. He became a professional photographer in 2000 and had solo gallery shows in New York City, Atlanta, San Diego, and Palo Alto. His solo exhibitions were in university museums, including University of Colorado and Georgia Tech, and his major one man shows too place at the Parthenon Museum of Nashville and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta. Some of his Monarch butterfly photographs are truly amazing and give us a good glimpse of what nature is like in Mexico. There’s one photo with multiple butterflies, some of which are blurred with the background and a some of which are closer and higher in quality. There’s really a sense of depth in there! When I take pictures, I always like to have objects appear to be three-dimensional and the background to be a little blurry. But the pictures I’m taking are mostly electronic products, so the backgrounds are usually minor. I think it’s more fun when I alter colors of the objects I take and make them look like they don’t exist in the real world. If Abe used Photoshop, the wings of the butterflies would really stand out. There are other artists besides Ordover whose photos can be found in the gallery as well. There’s Olof Carmel (a photographer who used archival print on canvas for his pictures in Lake Tahoe), Charles Cramer (the one who used three kinds of print for his nature pictures), and Tom O Scott (the one interested in Fuji Crystal Archive Lustre, which apparently involves the rearrangement of objects in the sand). It got me to thinking about the fact that pictures can be made to look as if they were painted, and Photoshop is a great approach. These artists sure know how to impress.
