Intimate Views: The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Finely crafted photographic prints by Scot Miller
13 new prints on display
March 1 – April 28
VIEW THE ENTIRE BRIDGE PORTFOLIO (34 images)
& "NEW BRIDGE IN TOWN," A SHORT FILM BY SCOT MILLER
As seen in the March issue of D Magazine!
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SPECIAL EVENTS:
Bridge-o-Rama Opening Weekend Celebration
Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Scot Miller will be at the gallery to discuss his work photographing the bridge.
His short film "New Bridge in Town" will be screened
regularly throughout the weekend in stunning HD in the gallery.
Complimentary and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Thursday–Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., and by appointment
Dallas-based photographer Scot Miller is well known for his work in other areas of our country, including Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, Walden Pond, Cape Cod, the Maine Woods and the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in 
Stonewall, TX. His most recent book, My First Summer in the Sierra: 100th Anniversary Illustrated Edition, received the 2011 Classic Award from the National Outdoor Book Awards, the outdoor world’s largest and most prestigious book award program. Occasionally, as previously with the Great Trinity Forest and the Trinity River, he is inspired to set his sights on the “urban landscape” of his hometown. This is one of those times.
Scot Miller calls the new Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge “the bridge in my back yard.” He and his wife, Marilyn, own Sun to Moon Gallery, located at 1515 Levee Street in the Dallas Design District. Levee, as in the Trinity River levee, which sits just feet behind the gallery. He has been watching progress on the bridge from the very beginning but it was in late summer 2011, after all of the cables had been strung, that the real genius behind Santiago Calatrava’s design became apparent to him. He had always been a believer in the bridge and what it would mean to the city, but was inspired by what he saw and felt challenged to interpret it on film and video. Determined to look at the bridge from all directions, his four-month creative journey took him to many interesting destinations throughout the city.
From late August, 2011 until the end of December, Scot photographed the bridge from all angles, at all times of the day, in all weather conditions, using medium-format and panorama film cameras. While the 50-pound camera backpack he carries into the wilderness is not out of the norm there, it does tend to stand out in the city. Blending was not an option. But he felt it important to have all his creative tools available when it came to camera and lens selection and he ended up using every piece of equipment in the backpack over the course of four months, including a 500mm lens that weighs in at almost ten pounds alone. While lenses this large are rarely used in medium format photography because of their size and weight, this particular lens ended up playing a big part in the creative process, enabling extremely detailed, intimate framings of the bridge. As Scot 
discovered over the course of the four months, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge takes on distinctly different looks depending on the light, the time of day, angle viewed from, etc. The resulting portfolio of thirty-six images reveals a fascinating study of this new bridge that is destined to make an architectural and design impact on the City of Dallas from day one.
Scot is also a videographer & documentary maker and recorded the entire process in stunning HD video. He is creating a short documentary combining music, time-lapse videos and still images to premiere and screen at Sun to Moon Gallery on March 2nd and 3rd to coincide with opening ceremonies for the bridge. He describes his concept for the video as “a ballet of music and light, emphasizing the lines and angles” of the new bridge and its impact on the skyline.
Sun to Moon Gallery invites the public to experience intimate, inspiring views of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in both print and video.
Partial proceeds from fine print sales will benefit Groundwork Dallas, a non-profit doing great work in the Great Trinity Forest and its gateway communities.
Intimate Views: The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Finely crafted photographic prints by Scot Miller
13 new prints on display
March 1 – April 28
VIEW THE ENTIRE BRIDGE PORTFOLIO (34 images)
& "NEW BRIDGE IN TOWN," A SHORT FILM BY SCOT MILLER
As seen in March issue of D Magazine!
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Also currently at Sun to Moon Gallery...
Visual Meditations
fine black & white prints by
JEFFREY CONLEY
February 16 - March 17, 2012
Exquisitely reproduced Gelatin Silver Prints.
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Sun to Moon Gallery
1515 Levee Street
Dallas, TX 75207
Phone 214.745.1199