In the last several years I have been getting deeply into photography. I have been asked to do several photography jobs, including weddings, commercial work, and press release photos. In February of 2001 I had my first showing, a one-man show at the OutReach offices in Madison. That was followed by another one-man show at Mother Fool's Coffeehouse in Madison in March of 2001. Above and below are some samples of my work. The one above is just one of my favorites. The rest on this page have all been successful for me in some way. You can click on the smaller images to see a larger version of the same photograph. All photographs are copyright 2000-2007 by Callen Harty. None of the images may be used in any form without permission. For further information, please contact me at the e-mail below. Thanks.
The two photos above are the first ones I had published with a photo credit (not counting high school yearbook). The first one is a publicity still for the play Sex Kittens from Mars, a sci-fi musical written by my partner, Brian, and produced at Broom Street Theater. It was published in Rhythm, the combined arts weekly of Madison's two daily papers, the Wisconsin State Journal and the Capital Times. It was published in July of 2000. The second one accompanied an obituary of my friend, Dave Runyon, the producer/writer/director of Nothing to Hide, one of the longest-running LGBT television shows in the U. S. It shows him standing behind his ever-present camera shortly before he was to take the stage to be presented an award for his life-long accomplishments and contributions to the lesbian and gay community. It was published in In-Step in January of 2001.
The photo above won first place in a Wacky Mailbox Photo contest sponsored by Scott Stamp Monthly in December, 2000. My prize was a $75 check and publication in the magazine in the February, 2001 issue. It was the first time I won a photo contest and the first time I earned any money from one of my photos. The mailbox is located on a state highway in south central Wisconsin.
The photo above was in my first-ever show, held at OutReach in Madison, Wisconsin in February of 2001. It was taken at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. A couple dozen of my photos were hung for the month. It was also the first-ever art exhibit at the community center.
The photo above was the signature piece of my second show, entitled The World Around Me, which was held at Mother Fool's Coffeehouse in Madison during the month of March, 2001. The photo was also taken at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The Artist's Statement from that show is available on the Mother Fool's arts and music archives.
The photo above was the first photograph from which I sold a print. It was sold to a friend of mine for a friend of mine, for his birthday. The picture is of the back wall of the restaurant where he worked.
The photo above won the grand prize in an Animal Plant photo contest in December of 2001. The contest was for unusual animal photos. It was taken at Vilas Zoo in Madison. I never accepted the prize as the company demanded that I turn over rights to the photo, which I didn't want to do, so the prizes actually went to someone else.
These three photos were selected to be in the 2002 Chamberlain Research calendar. The snowy owl, taken at the Milwaukee County Zoo, was the January photo. The dandelion, taken at ground level in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison, was the May photo. The creekside tree, which no longer exists, was taken at the Nine Springs E-Way in Madison and was the September photo.
These two photos were submitted to a photo contest on life in rural Wisconsin, in conjunction with the touring exhibit, Barnstorm Wisconsin. While neither of them won or placed, they were part of the tour and were displayed in a rural photo album that was part of the exhibit. For more information on that, or on the 2003 tour dates, see the Barnstorm Wisconsin website.
These two photos were included in the 2003 Chamberlain Research calendar. The one of the canoes was used for the cover. It was taken early morning at Lake Wingra in Madison. The other one is the August photo and was taken at the Libary Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The photo above is a shot from the Broom Street Theater play, The Man Who Loved Sex, by Joel Gersmann. It was published in the May 2003 issue of Madison Magazine, and accompanied an article about the play.
The 2004 Chamberlain Research calendar focused on animals and featured three of my photos. The blue and yellow macaw was used for February. It was taken at a festival in Oregon, Wisconsin. The frog was selected for July. It was taken at Edna Taylor Nature Center, one of my favorite photo spots in Monona. The grizzly wasn't selected for a month. It was used on a summary page at the end of the calendar. It was taken on our Yellowstone Park vacation a couple summers ago.
The birch photo above was my first-ever commercial sale. It was used, cropped considerably, as a divider page in the 2004 Promega catalog. Promega is a huge biotech firm based in Madison.
Perhaps my proudest achievement so far in my photo career was the selection of these four photographs to be featured in the book Wisconsin 24/7, one of the state books in the America 24/7 book series. The main book, America 24/7 shot to the top of the New York Times best seller list. The books are filled with photographs that were all taken during one week in the spring of 2003. The state books were published in 2004. My featured photos were of a paper flag made by a group of children at a day care center in Mazomanie, a picture of the Wisconsin State Capitol reflected in a building across the street, an interior view of the Capitol rotunda, and a pair of bird sculptures taken on Paterson Street in Madison.
What the editors of Wisconsin 24/7 didn't tell me was that besides the four featured photos they also used an additional 14 of my photographs throughout the book as thumbnails, a design feature that shows up on many of the pages. I only found out after I opened the book at a signing in Green Bay. Those photos and their locations are: a dandelion head in Madison, a pair of foxes I saw at Lake Kegonsa State Park, a horse in front of an old barn on County Highway K in Iowa County, a cement deer head at Chapel in the Pines near Arena, a picnic table at Blue Mounds State Park, a man sleeping next to Lake Monona in Madison, tulips in front of the State Capitol in Madison, a trailer at Chapel in the Pines near Arena, the Thai Pavilion at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, the sculpture Act in Madison's Olbrich Park, a house painted in Packer colors on Atwood Avenue in Madison, a detail from a mural on Winnebago Street in Madison, a man on a park bench at Brigham County Park near Blue Mounds, and the statue Forward on the State Street steps of the Capitol in Madison.
Two of my photos were selected for the 2005 Chamberlain Research calendar. The polar bear is from the Vilas Zoo and is the February picture. The Constitution is on display at the State Capitol and is the July picture.
In 2007 my photo of a house centipede was published in the Animal Planet book, The World's Most Extreme Bugs
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