About Sharper24 / Steve Harper  

> Photographer/Educator

> Researched. developed, and taught the first College-level Course in Night Photography, both black & White and color - 1979 to 1992. Also taught Design and Visual Concepts, Environmental Portraiture, Natural Light, Art Appreciation and Figure.

> Professor of Art, -1979-1990 Academy of Arts College (University), San Francisco, CA.
> University of California, Berkeley Arts Extension, San Francisco 1990-1992

> ....."a guiding light for a whole generation of Night Photographers" - Michael Kenna

> "To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage" - Georgia O'Keefe

> From Wikipedia, under Night Photography:

In the late 1970s, Steve Harper taught the first college-level course on night photography at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. The legacy of this program has led to San Francisco becoming a center of night photography.

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Equipment:

Mamiya RB6x7ProSD
Leica 35mm
iMacG5 - 10.5.1
NikonCoolScan9000
Canon5D
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I will not be posting images daily. Night Photography production is limited compared to the posibilities of day shooting, particularly if your snapping away on a digital camera.

All of the images on my site are taken with FILM processed normally.

Images that are taken at night can appear surreal due to the transformation caused by the passage of time during a long exposure. Any change in the atmosphere, any motion, the fact that the earth is turning, any circumstance that happens in front of the lens during the exposure that is beyond the photographer's control etch themselves onto the film and become part of the illusion.

I mention this because in this age of digital manipulation, I wish to point out that these images are not manipulated and the effects that make them surreal are not caused by digital manipulation.They are just straight photographs taken at night instead of during the day.

Performances in front of the camera while the image is being etched is a separate artistic concept.

Web and Blog site: www.steveharperphotography.com
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> I will try to respond to all comments, invites and awards, but because of time, must favor member's work that causes my own imagination to spark - and - because of my background, I will pay particular attention to photography done at night.

>> I am highly allergic to bizarre PhotoShop and HDR manipulations, particularily manipulations that alter the reality of nature. It concerns me greatly that Nature is changing on its own unnaturally fast.

>>> And if you are religiously "macro flower" , please read my latest comments on a couple of '"lovely", "just georgeous" flower macro images below:

"What interested me immediately was that little red face in the background with its mouth angrily open and its ears erect!"

"I think 'lovely' macro images of flowers are some of the most bizarre images I see. Many of them are very hairy!" or.....

> Macros of the centers of flowers puts them out of context to me so I tend not envision the part that is missing and concentrate on what I am actually seeing, i.e., "How totally bizarre! It looks like an embryo on a nice pink cushion!"

I'm Male and Single.

Greenbrae, CA, USA