Catch Lance Hidy’s trout flies before they’re gone

Courtesy of Bridge Gallery One of Lance Hidy’s elaborately produced trout fly images.

It’s the last week to see “ Hidden Art ,” an exhibition at Bridge Gallery celebrating the quirky photographs of Lance Hidy.

While best known for his graphic design work on Ansel Adams’s and Arnold Newman’s photography books, Hidy has rendered all manner of publications, posters and stamps into things of beauty. He’s also got a keen eye for a good photograph.

The trout flies were tied by the artist’s father, V.S. Hidy, a trout fly legend whose work turned everyday objects into stuff that looks like experimental sculptures.

Hidy, now based in Merrimac, Mass., used a technique called ‘focus stacking’ to put the images together. It’s a method that creates an astonishing level of detail. Just to creat