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My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Greenland | Thursday, September 30, 2010 | 3 photos

Recently, my re-introduction to digital photography and travel has taken me to a place from where I will never be able to return. In 1971 I was given a Kodak instamatic preceded by our family traveling the world for three years thus kindling my passion for travel and seeing. 40 years of wandering and exploration later I bring a wealth of experience to the camera. My curious mind has led me through successful careers as a chef, adolescent therapy worker, fabricator, artist, motion picture mechanic, and stagehand. This brings me to you as a broad minded, inquisitive person with sharp improvisational skills. Supplemented with an art education and 13 years as a working artist, makes my eye well trained both in aesthetics and conceptual imagery. After four years of not shooting I bought my first digital camera in 2007 in preparation for my first trip out of the United States since 1978. A six-week trip to Ilulisatt Greenland, setting up a movie set. The trip re-ignited my curiosity for all things amazing and the need for the rest of the world to see these amazing things, especially urgent considering our current environmental situation.
A conversation without meaning creates no interest, nor an image without subject or good composition. Considering the many ways to create an image of interest there are few I am preferential too. A detailed and broad focal range similar to Adams and some Stieglitz photos, the minute details contributing to the grandeur of the image. Moving compositions pulling your eyes through and around an image as in Cezanne’s tabletop images. Imagery that confronts the observer as do those of the Bechers’ and the paintings of Robert Motherwell. Also to mention, the phenomenon that makes photography amazing, light in all its forms.
Having just scratched the surface of this new age in technology, I am very eager to dive in fully and see the realm of possibilities. I would appreciate very much to claim Bhutan as my jumping off point.