Advance Copy of Paul Chaplo 's Book Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country

"It’s epic."
-Denise Gamino, journalist 
 The advance copy of the "Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country" book has arrived from Texas A&M University Press. The qualities of the printing and color are wonderful. After years of this labor of love, and with the help of many talented people, the experience of holding the book in my hands is beyond words! Thank you to everyone who made the Marfa Flights project possible! 

The release of the Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country book from Texas A&M University Press will featured at the opening of a concurrent exhibition of large format photographs from the book at the Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas. The opening will be accompanied by a book signing. The event is free to the public.

The Marfa Flights exhibit will show Texas-sized color aerial art landscape photographs taken by Paul Chaplo during perilous flights over the forbidding and austerely beautiful border lands.

The Museum of the Big Bend will also host a panel discussion about the book and project, bringing together a unique group of experts to discuss the Marfa Flights project and Big Bend from the viewpoints of pilot, National Park Service, historian, and geologist.

Marfa Flights book website

ABOUT THE MUSEUM:
The Museum of the Big Bend is part of Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas, and serves & educates the public by collecting, preserving, exhibiting & interpreting the culture, history & nature of Big Bend region of Texas. Learn more here:Museum of the Big Bend website

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country by Paul Chaplo
Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas
10x10", 121 color photographs, map
Preface by T. Lindsay Baker
Introduction by Lawrence John Francell
Read more about the book in the book catalog from Texas A&M University Press:
See a preview of the book here: Texas A&M University Press Fall/Winter 2014 Catalog

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Paul Chaplo works as a professional photographer specializing in corporate and architectural photography. He spends most of his time working from a helicopter flying with the doors off over Dallas, producing both still images and stabilized HD video.

Paul holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the world-renown graduate photography program at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

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Twitter: @PaulChaplo

MARFA FLIGHTS by Paul Chaplo Book Launch and Exhibit at the Museum of the Big Bend

ALPINE, TX The release of the Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country book from Texas A&M University Press will featured at the opening of a concurrent exhibition of large format photographs from the book at the Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas. The opening will be accompanied by a book signing. The event is free to the public.

The Marfa Flights exhibit will show Texas-sized color aerial art landscape photographs taken by Paul Chaplo during perilous flights over the forbidding and austerely beautiful border lands.

The Museum of the Big Bend will also host a panel discussion about the book and project, bringing together a unique group of experts to discuss the Marfa Flights project and Big Bend from the viewpoints of pilot, National Park Service, historian, and geologist.

Marfa Flights book website

ABOUT THE MUSEUM:
The Museum of the Big Bend is part of Sul Ross University in Alpine, Texas, and serves & educates the public by collecting, preserving, exhibiting & interpreting the culture, history & nature of Big Bend region of Texas. Learn more here:Museum of the Big Bend website

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country by Paul Chaplo
Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas
10x10", 121 color photographs, map
Preface by T. Lindsay Baker
Introduction by Lawrence John Francell
Read more about the book in the book catalog from Texas A&M University Press:
See a preview of the book here: Texas A&M University Press Fall/Winter 2014 Catalog

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Paul Chaplo works as a professional photographer specializing in corporate and architectural photography. He spends most of his time working from a helicopter flying with the doors off over Dallas, producing both still images and stabilized HD video.

Paul holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the world-renown graduate photography program at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

Follow us on Facebook: Paul Chaplo's author page


Twitter: @PaulChaplo

Paul Chaplo announces an upcoming book from Texas A&M Press
College Station, TX
BE A SPONSOR AND PUT YOUR BRAND ON A SPECIAL EDITION!
Become a corporate sponsor of MARFA FLIGHTS book, and put your company brand on a special edition of 100 or more books! Your company's logo and message can appear on a frontice page just like the Valero logo in this prototype! Makes a great corporate gift for the holidays! It is remarkable that you can get a special edition with your endorsement page bound into the book at a discount from the bookstore retail price -- a true win-win! To be a sponsor, just order 100 or more books prior to printing, which is happening soon! This really is a limited-time offer! -Paul Chaplo
Email paulchaplo@gmail.com for more information.
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UPCOMING NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PAUL CHAPLO!
Photo courtesy Grant Carpenter ©2013 

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 Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country

Author: Paul Chaplo 

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press 

Planned release date: Fall 2014
http://www.marfaflights.com/   

Breathtaking views of the rugged Texas Big Bend country from the air . . . 

Each year, thousands of people visit Big Bend National Park and other locations in this remote section of West Texas, marveling at the stark and magnificent landscapes carved by eons of volcanism, wind, and water into the arid, mountainous country along the Rio Grande River. But until now, very few—other than hawks or eagles—have ever surveyed this fiercely beautiful region from above. 

In Marfa Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country, photographer Paul V. Chaplo takes readers on an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend. An introduction by longtime director of the Museum of the Big Bend, Larry Francell, traces the history of aerial photography in Big Bend, from air patrols during the Mexican Revolution to W. D. Smithers’ army flyovers to the helicopter flights after the recent Rock House fire. He also reminds us that this unique view of the land, where water is disappearing at the same time more and more humans arrive, serves as both art and documentation, a record of a changing landscape in an increasingly fragile environment. 

Flying from Marfa, Chaplo heads south to Big Bend National Park, over the Chisos Mountains to the Rio Grande. He follows the river west to Lajitas, Terlingua, and Candelaria, then veers back north to the “starry stairway” of the Davis Mountains, where the McDonald Observatory is perched. The photos capture the shapes, textures, and colors of the rugged landforms people usually see only from the ground. This dramatic perspective underscores the age and remoteness of Big Bend and displays an immense topographic tableau of strange and austere beauty.

PAUL V. CHAPLO is a professional photographer specializing in corporate and architectural photography. His creative work has been exhibited in museums around the country, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

For more information visit our new website: http://www.marfaflights.com/
Texas A&M University Press: http://www.tamupress.com
Twitter: @PaulChaploPhoto
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-chaplo/13/39b/55
Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/paul.chaplo.author.marfa.flights
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Paul Chaplo is now offering high-definition stabilized gyro-mount helicopter HD video production in Dallas, TX and Fort Worth, Texas.

Paul Chaplo is now offering high-definition stabilized gyro-mount helicopter HD video production in Dallas, TX and Fort Worth, Texas. Paul Chaplo has did his master's degree thesis project in video and was the American Video Institute Graduate Fellow at the Imaging Center at RIT. Paul Chaplo has years of Fortune 500 experience. Contact Chaplo via his website. Specializing in low-altitude HD video aerial video production using helicopter in the DFW Metroplex.

Paul Chaplo Aerial Photographs Published in Sasaki Assoc. Monograph Book

Paul Chaplo's extreme low-altitude helicopter aerial photographs of Addison Circle Park in Addison, TX are published in the Oro Editions monograph book "Sasaki: Intersection and Convergence,"

The book was published by Oro Editions as part of their architecture series: (bottom left)

Oro Editions Website

More information on the book here:

Sasaki: Intersection and Convergence

Here is a PDF marketing prospectus of the book:

Book Sample PDF

During the aerial photo mission, Paul Chaplo created dramatic signature digital images of the park for Sasaki and Associates.

Paul Chaplo's work can be seen on his portfolio websites:
Paul Chaplo Architectural & Aerial Photography Dallas, Texas
Paul Chaplo Corporate Photography Dallas, TX

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY DALLAS, TX

We are currently flying helicopter aerial photography missions over Dallas and Fort Worth, TX. We do low-altitude photographs of major projects. I was selected to photograph the Trinity River area for the new development there, and it was exciting to be working so close to downtown Dallas skyscrapers. We created some very dramatic aerial images, and the helicopter allowed us to maneuver precisely into position. It was a great success!

Paul Chaplo, M.F.A.

Aerial Photographer

Dallas, Texas
Fort Worth, TX