{"title":"David Yarrow - Ellen DeGeneres","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"david-yarrow-the-last-chance-saloon","title":"The Last Chance Saloon","description":"The Last Chance Saloon\u003cbr\u003eVirginia City – 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo return to the Pioneer Bar in Virginia City, Montana is to return to my comfort zone and I feel an obligation to arrive with creative courage. We must push boundaries and not be lame in our conceptual processing. We have a free run here in the winter, when only 60 people live here and the Mayor only recently gave me the symbolic key to the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe group shots that I have photographed around the window end of the long bar have been well received and are difficult to top, especially as the last one included Cindy Crawford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy premise this time was to markedly up the number of people in the picture (the most we had used before was six). This puts pressure on both the construction and the casting, as one lame character can become a tension point and ruin the whole image. We have all experienced the difficulty of group pictures on Christmas Day or Thanksgiving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscar selfie works so well, not just because of the number of people in the image, but because every character is an additive. It is my favourite selfie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe assembled a strong cast - the models Kate Bock from Cleveland and Olivia Culpo from Charlotte, native American families from Northern Montana and then, of course, my favourite local mountain men. The hair and makeup\/styling team, led by Nikki Parisi out of La, was outstanding. My direction was 150 years ago Wild West - appropriate as in the 1860s, over 15,000 lived in Virginia City and The Pioneer Bar would have been very busy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll 11 characters played their roles well that day, but perhaps the picture is stolen by a lovely 85-year- old lady called Mary from Butte, Montana. 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I think that’s about right - it’s not easy at 10,000 feet in the rainforest, and the best of my work now hangs in the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Fund in Kinigi, Rwanda. I am glad they don’t display my average pictures, of which there are many.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I recently had the chance to work on a fundraiser with another great American conservationist - Ramona Bass - a legendary figure in Fort Worth - who has offered a sanctuary for displaced Western Lowland Gorillas for many years. The male adult Lowland gorillas have less hair than mountain gorillas and, as a result, look more human. The most famous of these under Ramona’s care is a 33-year-old silverback called Elmo, who can be photographed from a distance at certain times of the day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He is a handsome boy that carries a look of authority. 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