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My photographic challenge is to grab one's attention, to create a spark of excitement and to successfully communicate my vision to the eyes and mind of a perfect stranger.

THE EYE

Only the eye can drink
From a lake a mile away
Or climb ten mountain in
Less time than it takes to say,

Land on the moon, the stars;
Fall, rise, hurdle, sprint;
Put a lid on the world
Or narrow it to a squint.

Lovers of light, whose lies
Deceive us doctors say,
Let physics chew surmise
Dine out on the crusty day

And drink the sun's gold wine,
Devouring all that seems,
From color, form, and depth
Concoct your optic dreams

And give them to the mind
As its best evidence.
Then only, thought may grind
A harder sharper lens.
Gray Burr (b. 1919)


The goal of my Photography is to stimulate the viewer's own imagination. It seeks to share the feelings of warmth, beauty, pleasure, and delight I felt when viewing the scene. If I have communicated my art successfully, it becomes brain candy for the observer’s visual senses.

"The human eye sees, the finger moves, the eye of the stopper blinks after the cold lens and a light outbreak impregnates the film. It already spent the moment. But in the memory the memory of that moment lies now captive, fragment of catched time, that hopes to see itself revived a shaped bidimensional existence in a piece of paper, like fragile test of which it has happened or of that it was or it was. Certainly to that almost all photography is confined: to a chain of simple physical phenomena forged by a cereblal desire to perpetuate the present"… (from the book, Artistic Composition for photographers by Luis René Morilla -translated from the Spanish)

At one time I had an on-line Photography business. I have recently had photographs selected for exclusive display, and sold, at White Space Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.

My photographs have also been selected for inclusion in the newly released fourth edition of the Schmap Wellington Travel Guide as well as in NowPublic, a news gathering organization based in Vancouver, Canada.

I have photos included in an exhibition at the German Mining Museum in Bochum dealing with the mining of the raw material copper, and its exploitation in the Chilean Andes. My photos also are included in a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, a UK based charity working internationally to combat the environmental and social issues related to shrimp farming.

Panraven, an online photo book creation company, has purchased hundreds of my photos from all over the world for their online user's gallery.

I like the current Nikon line of SLR's and my main squeeze use to be a D-90, but I have just purchased the D700 which is a full-frame professional camera. I have had the 70s and the 80 also. I have also done some shootring with the Canon line of cameras (10D, 30D), and the S-1 and S-3 which are good value for the money, but the main drawback is that they have a fixed lens system.

The Nikon seems to fit my hand better and it has a wide-range auto- ISO feature that Cannon does not offer (although they do have a similar, rather limited, feature).

The Nikon's auto-ISO feature is great when you are shooting early in the morning and as the light begins to change in the evening.

I have a number of lens, for the Nikon which I switch out as needed. Since I still have my D-90 I have a couple of std tele-photo Nikkor DX lenses which are compatable with the D-90's smalled sensor. With the new D700 I have a range of Nikkor FX lenses up through the 80-400mm FX-VR.

All that said, a National Geo photographer I met once told me that it is not the camera, or even the len, that makes a great pictures. It is what is behind the camera that counts! Your eye and imagination are the most important elements.
Cheers,
rrr (retrorocketrick)