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Earth Reflections - Biography
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Hello,
Artist's Statement The things that thrill me about photography are the ability to capture and share a moment in time and the ability to expose others to things they otherwise just wouldn't see. Sometimes this is manifested by capturing otherwise inaccessible landscapes, and other times its getting in close to everyday objects. Please explore my portfolio and share a piece of my wonder and vision of the world.
History Even before high school I purchased and started playing with a "contact printer" for making prints without an enlarger. In high school my parrents allowed me to build a darkroom by doubling the size of the down-stairs bathroom. I did this by demolishing and moving a wall. This was for black and white only.
Equipment I've been interested Photography since I was young, starting with a Kodak "Brownie" camera and moving along through my first 35mm SLR (an Exa-1a purchased in Germany) with waist-level view finder. By the time I was a sophomore in high school I had stepped up to a Ricoh SLR and was on the yearbook staff. In the mid-80's in preperation for a year-long bicycle trip I bought a Minolta 9000 auto-focus camera. This (now two 9000 bodies) and a couple lenses makes up my 35mm cameras stable. In 1995 I started using a 4x5 view camera -- a much different experience from 35mm. It always takes minutes, if not tens of minutes to expose a single sheet of film. Because of this I get much more selective about what pictures I'll take when using the "4x5". And finally I've started "going digital". There are a few photographs on this site that have been created entirely of photons and electrons -- no traditional chemical processes. The prints from my Nikon 950 hold up very well when enlarged to 8" x 10".
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