Angier+Fox, Celebrating Rural America & beyond

Wildflowers and poppies cover the Sierra Nevada Foothills in California each spring. Sometimes the show starts in late February and lasts through April, sometimes it's shorter. One never knows ;-). In any case, each year is different and a pleasant surprise.

First pour of hot iron in the 21st century at the historic Knight Foundry, Sutter Creek, Calif., resulting in cast gray iron castings. Historic Knight Foundry is a fixture in Sutter Creek since 1873 and is the last water-powered machine shop and foundry in the U.S. In the mid 2010s, the City of Sutter Creek received the deed, volunteers cleaned up the clutter of more than a century, the machine shop restored to full operation and in 2021, the cupola blast furnace was made ready, resulting in the first casting of gray iron in 25 years. The first pour using the smaller of two cupola furnaces (small blast furnace), cast about 1800 pounds of iron into several fire box gratings for the Nevada Northern Railway, the letter “A” for a project at Amador High School, several weights used to hold the sand casting forms in place during pouring, a water gate wheel and several other small iron items.

127th anniversary of the founding and consecration of Jackson, California's St. Sava Orthodox Church, oldest Serbian Orthodox Church outside of Serbia, 1894. Serbian Founders’ Day celebration and memorial, St. Sava Jackson, with Main Street procession with clergy, icons, ancestors of the Serbian diaspora as St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates 127 years, during the feast of the Entry to the Temple of the Theotokos, Jackson, Calif. . . . . #StSavaJackson, 127thAnniversary, #JacksonCalifornia, #VisitAmador, #NationalHotelJackson, #SerbianOrthodoxy, #OrthodoxChristianity

 West of East Jesus is a collection created during a travel-trailer shake-down the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Foothills, then east over Walker Pass, the most southern of the Sierra Nevada passes, down US 395 through the High Desert, down to the Salton Sea and Anza-Borrego State Park, then return with a visit to Slab City, past East Jesus up to Barstow and the Rainbow Basin, on to Randsburg, Cartego, Bishop, Mono Lake and home in a week. As luck would have it, the trailer had a few minor issues, totally manageable, until the day after return when its single axle separated from the frame... It was a visually rich journey to familiar places but using newer tools including mirrorless cameras and an iPhone 12. Along the way was a good return to travel, to visualization, to using new tools and a new collection of photographs creating fodder for other projects throughout 2021.

Glorification of St. Mardarije of Libertyville and All-America during July 14 to July 16 in Chicago, New Gračanica Monastery and St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois. Included is the Symposium on the life and times of St. Mardarije, Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, Patriarchal Divine Liturgy, Glorification Vigil and more. Iconography at St. Sava Church in Libertyville by Miloje Milinkovic.

A drone’s eye view of rural California and Nevada using the DJI Phantom quadcopter (drone, uav, multicopter, uas, r/c aircraft) and a CoPro Hero 3 camera focusing on a new view of the world, somewhere between what may bee seen from a tall ladder and the minimum altitude of an airplane or helicopter.

Construction, progress and completion photographs by Larry Angier, Image West Photography and featuring multiple projects and properties. The Jackson Lodge exterior and room photos of cabins and rooms for use in print and electronic media created after property rehabilitation. The National Hotel, Jackson showing before, during and completion of total remodel and modernization. As construction of the Mission Portfolio workshops, our group photographed several California Spanish Missions to document their current conditions. Among those are two missions, one whose earthquake retrofit is complete and and second which has started repairs in fall of 2014. Mission San Antonio de Padua for the Mission Portfolio project showing before and during earthquake retrofit including low-level drone stills. Mission San Miguel Arcangel for the Mission Portfolio project. The first is an historic image just months before the San Simeon Earthquake of 2003, during restoration in 2009 and reopening of to the public in 2011.

Black and white from the Mother Lode of California.

Springtime, new beginnings, The Great Lent and the Resurrection of Easter--Pascha, Uskers

Commercial work produced and photographed by Larry Angier and Image West Photography.

Winter at Jackson's Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church including the Blessing of the Waters of Jackson Creek during Theophany.

Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church, Butte, Montana, and its centennial frescoes written (painted) in the 21st century with scenes from the Bible and important saints to the Christian Orthodox people of faith. This church was originally founded in the early 20th century by St. Sebastian of Jackson and San Francisco. However, that church collapsed into the honeycomb of copper mining tunnels beneath Butte in the mid 20th century so this new church was constructed in the early 1960s.

Over-the-top slammed color web and decaying autumn leaves in the street. Some of these are the colors just as they were, others, as they should be, colorful and bright!

Miracle-working Iverson Ikon of the Theotokos (Hawaii's Myrrh-Streaming Icon) on her visit to St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Jackson, California, November 2018.

Annual sausage making by the ethnic Serbian community of Amador County.

Making a traditional slavski kolach (feast loaf) in the Serbian ethnic tradition, Jackson, California.

Slava of St. Sebastian of Jackson and San Francisco, California at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church. The annual slava (feast) celebrates the life of the first American-born Orthodox Priest, founder of St. Sava Church, first consecrated Serbian Orthodox Church in the western hemisphere.

An ad-hoc parade in rural California near Sacramento in support of incumbent President Trump expects 30 vehicles to parade through the community. However, a groundswell of local supporters get wind of the event, bringing nearly 600 cars and hundreds more families to assemble for a Tuesday evening "Trump Train" spread over three to four miles and lasting nearly two hours as it traveled though two the two Sierra Foothill cities of Jackson and Sutter Creek peacefully.

A small sampling of Orthodox Christian Churches in the US from the archives of Larry Angier. Most churches in this gallery are Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries including St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, founded in 1894 by St. Sebastian of Jackson and San Francisco and the first Serbian Orthodox Church n the Western Hemisphere, along with the iconography of Belgrade, Serbia, iconographer Miloje Milinkovic.

Akathist (hymn) to St. Sebastian of Jackson, St. Sava Jackson. Annual slava (feast) of St. Sebastian of Jackson, founder of St. Sava Church in 1894, first Orthodox priest born in America and first Orthodox Apostle of America. With Fr. Marko Bojović, Fr. Siniša Milutinović, Burnaby, BC & Archpriest Peter Perekrestov, San Francisco

Annual slava (feast) of St. Sebastian of Jackson, founder of St. Sava Church in 1894, first Orthodox priest born in America and first Orthodox Apostle of America. With clergy from a dozen Orthodox churches from LA to Vancouver, BC Divine Liturgy lead by Rev. Hieromonk Vasilije Gavrilovic

99th annual visit of the Northern California Russian Orthodox community as they honor their faith and the diaspora interred in the Ft. Ross cemetery. The Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia held its annual pilgrimage to the historical Fort Ross on Memorial Day, May 27, 2024. The Fort’s chapel, dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity, was built in the mid-1820s. Although Ross had no resident priest, in 1836 Father Ioann Veniaminov—glorified in 1977 as St. Innocent of Alaska—visited the settlement and conducted the Sacraments of Marriage, Baptism, and the Divine Liturgy. The faithful of the Bay Area worked with the state of California and other benefactors in the 20th century to preserve the Fort and the chapel. About 1841, John Sutter purchased Fort Ross to use the lumber in the building of Sutter's Fort in Sacramento. Beginning around 1922 or 1923, Russian Orthodox Christians have been coming to Fort Ross annually with exception during Covid lockdowns. They came remembering their roots and praying at this holy place consecrated by the presence of Saints such as Holy Hierarch Innocent of Moscow, Holy Martyr Peter the Aleut, Hieromartyr Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, and Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker. This year’s festivities were presided over by His Eminence Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco with the priests and diaconate of several Northern California parishes. The Orthodox faithful attended the morning liturgy followed by a memorial Lytia to bless and pray for the more than 130 buried in the nearby cemetery.