Carolynn McCann (Dufft) with her award winning Adirondack photograph
Two photographs by Old Forge photographer Carolynn McCann (Dufft) are currently on display at the downtown Rochester gallery, Image City Photography Gallery.
The 6th annual “The Magic of Life” juried exhibit, which opened January 2, features 176 photographs by 83 artists in a wide range of photographic styles.
During the exhibit’s opening reception it was announced that McCann’s winter scene photograph of The Little Red Boathouse, located on the channel to First Lake, was selected as one of three grand prize winners.
The photo is one of seven featured on the gallery’s website as a preview of the show.
The Little Red Boathouse by Old Forge photographer Carolynn McCann (Dufft)
It also appeared in a December 28 article promoting the exhibit in the Time Out section of the Rochester Business Journal.
Having moved to Old Forge in the fourth grade, McCann’s family owned the former McCann’s Corner newsstand, where Ozzie’s Coffee Bar is now located.
Next door lived the late photographer Bill Weedmark whose work inspired her to pursue the art of photography at the Town of Webb School.
She also credits another local photographer, Ted Russell, with inspiring her interest when she was a high school student.
Russell, who at the time worked at the local newspaper, The Adirondack Echo, helped acquaint her with the darkroom, she said.
Following high school she earned a photography degree at Herkimer County Community College, then continued her studies at Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute.
Her photographic interests continue to be fine art and Adirondack landscape related.
McCann, who has been Director/Librarian of the Raquette Lake Library for the past 12 years, said she is blessed to have a job she loves and to be able to follow her passion as an Adirondack landscape photographer.
The Magic of Life exhibit will be on display throughout the month of January.
More information is available at the gallery’s website: imagecityphotographygallery.com.
