Landscape photographer races to finish decades of work
Oregon photographer Christopher Burkett is best known for producing large-format film prints of American landscapes, some of the highest resolution color photographs ever created without computer...
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>> Sreenivasan: THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAS UNDERGONE A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, WITH TRADITIONAL FILM GIVING WAY TO DIGITAL, AND SPARKLING IMAGES CREATED AND SHARED IN AN INSTANT FROM THE PHONE IN YOUR POCKET. BUT THERE ARE SOME PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO REMAIN CONVINCED THAT THE OLD WAYS ARE WORTH PRESERVING. ONE OF THEM IS OREGON'S CHRISTOPHER BURKETT, WHO WORKS SLOWLY AND PATIENTLY TO CREATE SOME OF THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHS EVER MADE. NEWSHOUR WEEKEND SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JOANNE ELGART JENNINGS HAS OUR STORY. >> Reporter: FROM BLUEBERRY FIELDS IN MAINE TO SWIRLING VERATRUM PLANTS IN ALASKA. TO A LONE COTTONWOOD TREE IN UTAH AND RESPLENDENT LEAVES AT SUNSET IN HIS NATIVE OREGON. CHRISTOPHE...
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>> Sreenivasan: THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAS UNDERGONE A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, WITH TRADITIONAL FILM GIVING WAY TO DIGITAL, AND SPARKLING IMAGES CREATED AND SHARED IN AN INSTANT FROM THE PHONE IN YOUR POCKET. BUT THERE ARE SOME PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO REMAIN CONVINCED THAT THE OLD WAYS ARE WORTH PRESERVING. ONE OF THEM IS OREGON'S CHRISTOPHER BURKETT, WHO WORKS SLOWLY AND PATIENTLY TO CREATE SOME OF THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHS EVER MADE. NEWSHOUR WEEKEND SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JOANNE ELGART JENNINGS HAS OUR STORY. >> Reporter: FROM BLUEBERRY FIELDS IN MAINE TO SWIRLING VERATRUM PLANTS IN ALASKA. TO A LONE COTTONWOOD TREE IN UTAH AND RESPLENDENT LEAVES AT SUNSET IN HIS NATIVE OREGON. CHRISTOPHE...
