SLIDE SHOWS BY JOHN ELLERT

If your group would like to program one or more of John’s slide/music programs, please contact me at 316-641-6158 or E-mail John Ellert using imagesmith at johnellert.com. Fees for the programs range from free to $1000, depending on the nature of the group and location, plus mileage (for programs presented outside of Wichita) and other expenses. Programs can be presented singly or combined to fit whatever time frame you have in mind, from fifteen minutes to an hour. I can present to virtually any size group.

The presentation hall is important to the success of these programs. If the program is to be during the day, then a room WITHOUT ANY windows is highly desirable- curtains or blinds are almost always insufficient to totally darken the room. If you have a large projection screen already in the room I will use that - the bigger, the better. If no screen is available, I will bring a 6' x 6' screen. All other equipment is provided, including a multiple-projector dissolve set up and stereo system. It takes a minimum of 30 minutes to set this equipment up and test, and this must be done before any guests arrive, so the room needs to be available at least a half hour, preferably 45 minutes, early.

Most of the programs are color slide shows put to music, with one image dissolving into the next; some include narration. The shows are introduced with 5 - 10 minutes of information, with a question and answer session afterward. A single program normally lasts 20 - 30 minutes. Combinations of shorter slide shows can be combined for longer programs, up to an hour. There is no additional cost for this. Discussion can be on a wide range of subjects, including nature photography, wilderness and habitat preservation, and wildlife.

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS

• Visions of Tuscany.
A companion piece to Porte d'Italia, this show concentrates on the spectacular light and landscapes from Florence south to Chianti and the Crete Senesi. Like Porte d'Italia, this program shows the people of Italy - native and tourist alike - going about the business of daily living. 24 minutes

• Alaskan Odyssey. Voyage by small boat through the incredibly beautiful Inside Passage from Sitka north to Pack Creek Brown Bear Reserve and south to Anan Creek Black Bear Reserve. Along the way you will see humpback whales feeding, dolphins riding the bow wave, not to mention the incredible beauty of the temperate rainforest. From there we make a brief stop on the Kenai Peninsula before wind up our adventure in Denali National Park. Will you get to see Mt Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley)? The show runs 29 minutes and is in part narrated and in part set to Native American flute music.

• Wildcats! In this general show about big and small wildcats you will see some familiar big cats as well as get introduced to some of the lesser-known small cats such as Pallas’ Cat, the ocelot, and the fishing cat. The cats were photographed in the wild in Africa as well as at zoos and game reserves in the United States. This show is narrated against native music indigenous to the regions where each group of cats is found and concludes with a plea for preservation of the cat’s habitat, lest they become extinct in the wild. 24 minutes.

• Singular Connections: The Galápagos Islands.
The Galápagos Islands are a place of incredible stark beauty, unusual species of plants and animals, and one of the last places left on earth that is still largely untouched by the hand of man. It is the crucible in which Charles Darwin formed the ideas that would lead to one of the seminal publications in the history of natural science. Although words and images can not begin to describe the unique experience that a tour of the islands offers, I offer to the viewer my own synopsis based on a one week photographic expedition. 25 minutes

• Front Range Winter.   The mountains around Boulder, Colorado, form the setting for this beautiful ode to mountain winter, photographed over a 48 hour period, and set to a contemporary violin work. 11 minutes.

• Beyond a Handshake: An Intimate View of the Oregon Coast.   In this 21 minute show set to classical music you will see some of the most stunning scenery in North America. Coastal Oregon features an incredible array of geography from rugged coast to rich temperate rain forest. Beautiful sunsets set against craggy sea stacks are the norm. The images for this show were created in a two week intensive shoot in August 2002.

• Forest Primeval: Coastal Forests of the Pacific Northwest
Photographed over five trips spread across several years, this show draws images from a continuing body of work. I am powerfully drawn to the coastal forest and have now worked significant portions of the northwest coast from Northern California, through much of coastal Oregon, and portions of Washington, British Columbia, southeast and coastal south central Alaska. 27 minutes