Flickr: science2art

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I am finally getting around to posting some of my work on flickr. It is about time since I have had a pro account since well before Yahoo.

Photography is one of my passions. My first camera at age 12 was a Kodak Instamatic, using 126 film, but soon it was replaced by an Argus C3 35mm rangefinder (the brick). I built my first B&W darkroom in the garage at age 14. To survive high school I decided to become one of the yearbook photographers; nobody messes with the yearbook photographers! That was a good strategy since I went to a pretty tough school. We shot mostly medium format for the yearbook using old Yashica twin lens reflex cameras and we developed and printed every roll ourselves.

My passion for photography has continued all these years. My tools have covered the format gamut from that first Instamatic to an old wooden 4x5 field camera, color and black and white, slides to prints. In 1996 I started experimenting with digital imaging and when Canon introduced the D30 the use of film and the darkroom plummeted. Chemistry went to zero a few years later. film still has a magic to it and I sometimes miss the smell of stop bath and fixer.

I enjoy the hardware of photography, camera, lenses, lighting, meters, printers, spectrophotometers as well as inks and papers. The gestalt of a well engineered camera is a work of art to behold and hold. I shoot Leica, Nikon and Hasselblad, all are works of art in their own right.

My work has been published and collected. I've done commercial projects in addition to selling fine art prints. I have been lucky to study with some truly great photographers and printers over the years and I continue to attend workshops and conferences as well as teach. My commercial forays into photography have included owning an industrial photography studio and a fine-art printmaking venture, both successful in their time.

One interesting limitation to my photography is that I have low vision, this presents some unique issues. An advantage surfaces in my “seeing” and compositions. I am influenced by the crafts of painting and drawing as well as the technology and science of imaging. Science enables art and art informs science!