Darkroom Gallery - Juried Contemporary Photography Exhibits

Natural Playground

• Kristen Ulmer

  Joni Kabana Portland, OR USA Extreme skier, Kristen Ulmer, also loves to climb high rock walls. Here she is climbing in Utah in her ski boots and tutu.

• Jesse Huffman. Montpelier Backcountry.

  Shem Roose Richmond, Vermont USA

• Jesse Huffman. Moscow Backcountry

  Shem Roose Richmond, Vermont USA

• The Water Runners

  Bryan Ballinger Huntington, in USA My daughter and our dog Figbert, running across the waters of Lake Superior.

• Back Arch in Canyonlands

  Adam Coppola Madison, CT USA Simply put, Canyonlands National Park is an adventurer's natural playground! This is a panoramic photo of my wife, Christy showing-off some flexibility on an upper canyon ledge. My back hurts just looking at this image.

• The Light at the End of the Canyon

  Adam Coppola Madison, CT USA Bryce Canyon National Park is a photographer's dream. At the top of the Canyon, photographers were bumping elbows to capture colorful hoodoos. A short hike away gave us solitude and inner canyon beauty.

• Cycling into Last Light

  Adam Coppola Madison, CT USA For the year 2011, my wife and I left our jobs and sold everything (except for camera gear and bikes) to pedal through all 50 states. Sunset riding images like this will always remind us to love life and live adventure! www.giveabike.com

• Kauai

• Cecilia

• Rooster(ing)

  Dana Allen Burlington, Vermont USA Sometimes there's just too much snow...and you just have to rooster it out of the way. skier: louise lintilhac place: kirkwood, ca

• Huck/Fly

  Dana Allen Burlington, Vermont USA it's not the fall, it's the landing. don't worry, this guy stuck it. biker: unknown place: grand junction, co

• Inverted Appreciation

  Dana Allen Burlington, Vermont USA ...if the appreciation is inverted, then is it depreciation? who knows... backflips on bikes make the world go 'round. biker: unknown place: grand junction, co

• Smoothing out the Berm

  Dana Allen Burlington, Vermont USA new trails are meant to be ridden ASAP, even if there's a little dust. Crested Butte's finest gives 'er on a newly constructed berm. bikers: ben bresalauer, andy shabo, matt steinwand place: crested butte, co

• Pow-Derrr

  Dana Allen Burlington, Vermont USA when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. when the northern hemisphere hands you summer, get out of town. you'll find winter eventually. skier: louise lintilhac place: las lenas, argentina

• Series: Grounded / Title: Fort Funtson #238

  Kerry Mansfield San Francisco, CA USA

• Cave Mamet

  Nenad Saljic Split, Croatia Exploration of Cave Mamet which has the biggest entrance in Croatia (60 x 70 m) and the pit of 200 m where Austrian BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner jumped in 2004.

• Deep Water Kayaking

  Gary Tobler Colechester, VT USA Nikon D7000, Nikon 10.5mm f2.8, ISO 100, 1/640s at f 6.3, Post work Lihgtroom 3, Gimp. (Kayaking Lake Champlain in 14' Pungo kayak , Deepest depth of Lake Champlain is 391 ft.)

• Descent

  Daniel Sohner Hilliard, Ohio USA New River Gorge, West Virginia, USA

• Bridge Day Rappel

  Daniel Sohner Hilliard, Ohio USA Bridge Day, New River, West Virginia, USA

• Rest

  Daniel Sohner Hilliard, Ohio USA Spruce Knob, West Virginia, USA

• Last of the Day

  Daniel Sohner Hilliard, Ohio USA Dog Beach, Huntington, California, USA

• Bridge Day

  Daniel Sohner Hilliard, Ohio USA Bridge Day, New River, West Virginia, USA

• Solitude

  Brian Riopelle Bolton Valley, Vermont USA Prints Available

• Surfing The White Wave

• Early Morning Glass

  Don Watkins Jackson, WY USA You wake up, a chill in the air, fog rising off the water and not a ripple to be seen. One more sip of coffee, throw on your vest and in you go. Water so smooth you hear the hum of your board slice through the water. Does it get any better?

• Golden Staircase Shadow

  Don Watkins Jackson, WY USA It's 8:30am and you've been on route for 2 hours. Despite cold temps, your palms are sweaty. Your heart racing as you place protection hanging from the side of a mountain. A slight nod at your partner and climb on with the summit in your sights.

• Top Out

  Clinton Lewis Bowling Green, KY USA Kevin Grove of Bend, Oregon, tops out on a boulder in the Santa Cruz Valley in Peru's Cordillera Blanca mountain range during the American Alpine Club's Cordillera Blanca Environmental Expedition this summer.

• Exposed

  Alexandre Buisse Lyon, France Looking down on a gaping crevasse during an exposed traverse on the southwest ridge of Nevado Chopicalqui, 6345m, Peru.

• Summit Mushroom

  Alexandre Buisse Lyon, France Climbers on the summit mushroom of Nevado Chopicalqui, 6345m, Peru.

• Tormented

  Alexandre Buisse Lyon, France Nic Mullin descending from Aiguille du Plan in front of a full Mont Blanc panorama, Chamonix, France.

• Khumbu

  Alexandre Buisse Lyon, France Admiring the north face of Ama Dablam from Pokalde base camp, Khumbu, Nepal.

• Mt. Tongariro

  Richard Young Plimmerton, Wellington New Zealand Tongariro National Park, New Zealand. Limited edition of 10 prints. www.richardyoung.net

• Mountaineer

  Richard Young Plimmerton, Wellington New Zealand Montage. 3 photographs of climbers taken against a background of overexposed snow. Limited edition of 10 prints. www.richardyoung.net

• Priest Draw

  Joe Cornett Flagstaff, AZ USA Send It!

• Ice Curves

  Jon Hyde and Kimberly Sultze Colchester, VT USA Winter sun and minus 10 degrees make for supreme conditions for this ice climbing adventure in “the Notch” in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

• Pulled by the Wind

  Jon Hyde and Kimberly Sultze Colchester, VT USA Late afternoon sun and twenty knots of wind make for a crisp fall kite surfing session on Lake Champlain.

• Above the Horizon

  Jon Hyde and Kimberly Sultze Colchester, VT USA A Lake Champlain kite surfer goes inverted for a different perspective on the Adirondacks.

• Playground of Waves

  Jon Hyde and Kimberly Sultze Colchester, VT USA A kayaker drops into a cold wave along the Oregon coast.

• Boulder With A View

  Joshua Montague Boulder, Colorado USA A rock climber ascends a boulder at the beautiful Lincoln Lake, near the summit of Mt. Evans, Colorado.

• Late Afternoon Kayaking

  Russ Hartung Morrisonville, NY USA

• Kayaking On A Mountain Lake

  Russ Hartung Morrisonville, NY USA

• Spacetime

  Hugh Jones Arlington, VA USA

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  Hugh Jones Arlington, VA USA

• Ski to Sea

  Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson Moretown, VT USA Descending from the heights of the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve toward "Aurora" - our floating basecamp - during a multi-week exploration of Iceland's wild West Fjords region.

• Midnight Ski Camp

  Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson Moretown, VT USA Midnight at our cozy seashore camp, during a month-long, bicycle-supported skiing adventure through the backcountry of Arctic Norway.

• Iceland Fissure

  Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson Moretown, VT USA After a morning spent skiing in the mountains of northern Iceland, we set off in pursuit of a natural hot spring within a deep fissure near the region's Krafla volcano.