I am a fine art photographer currently living in the Hill Country of Texas. I like to share interesting scenes or moments or points of view, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not. I process my images on a computer to make them better focus on my intended subject or goal of the photograph — I try to bring out what I saw in my mind’s eye when I took the picture.
Photographs do not represent reality, as many people claim. It is impossible because current digital cameras (nor film) are capable of recording the dynamic range (the range of brightness) that our eyes can see. Hence some of the “modern” techniques to manipulate photos are aimed at increasing the apparent dynamic range. But furthermore, my goal is to enhance reality in order to communicate, to make the pictures look more like what I saw, or maybe what I would like to have seen.
Although for me photography is a means of self expression, I love to share my view of the world with others. You can currently see and purchase my work in two galleries in Wimberley, TX: Art on 12 and Bent Tree Gallery, as well as view and purchase from my website. I am also a member of the Wimberley Valley Art League.
I am retired from a lifetime of work in high energy physics, mostly at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL. I have a PhD in high energy physics and worked most of my career in computing support of high energy physics. For as long as I remember I’ve had a camera and used it for vacation photography. Then when my husband retired and we took over a travel agency, I started using my photography to sell travel on the newly invented internet. When we both retired and moved to Texas, I changed my focus again, this time to fine art photography. To me that means the focus is less on representing reality but attempting to interpret it. That “interpretation” is done with the use of the wonderful computer-based tools now available for image procssing. Nothing that I sell is “straight out of the camera”.
The photo below is my husband Gil and I at Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, September 2020.
