Barney Sellers

I met this guy once in Memphis way back when I had just bought my first 35 mm Pentax. Very nice man with some great pictures of the Ozarks. Bit of a photography inspiration to me back then.Noticed in the article he had his ashes spread over a lookout at Calico Rock. I have several pictures spanning nearly 40 years from that site. Beautiful place overlooking the White River form a high bluff.

Just found this website.

Noticed he died 6 years ago and had lived nearby.

Funny the things and people you are unaware of being near you in your own backyard and how you take them for granted then one day they are gone. I’d love to talk to the guy again, but it’s too late now.

Here’s to you Barney.

Barney Sellers (1926–2012) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Just found that his son lives just down the road from the place in Missouri where I am moving to.

Small world in some ways.

Link:

Farewell, Barney Sellers

“Yes, Barney saw things that no one should have to see – he photographed civil unrest in the Memphis of the mid-20th century, he went to war (serving two stints in the Navy) and he was there the day singer Jerry Lee Lewis lost his 3-year-old son to drowning in 1962. But despite that – or perhaps because of it – he was able to see the beauty in God’s creation that many of us are too busy to notice.

I remember the time he was visiting my dad at the shop Dad had built in our back yard, and Barney saw a spider web hanging from a corner of the building. Barney said, “Don’t touch that,” or some such admonition to leave the web alone. He trudged back up the hill to his house, returned with a squirt bottle, misted the spider web and shot a typically stunning picture of it, water droplets sparkling in the moonlight.”........

“It’s appropriate that Barney’s family had his remains deposited in a vintage camera case. On a date to be announced, his ashes will be scattered at his favorite spot in the Ozarks.”