"The myth is that you capture lightning in a bottle..."
-Chris Rainier-
I currently teach AP English, Creative Writing and Senior Composition at Kelly Walsh High School,Casper, Wyoming.
I have been serious about photography since the mid-70s.
Most Current
"Grand Lake Series #14" selected for Art Along the Parkway 20011/ Jurors Sharon Merchat, Fred Taraba and E.K.Wimmer (October 2011)
("Wolf Hotel, Saratoga" selected for gallery showing for The Poetry of Shadows exhibition at The PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont/Juror Christina Z. Anderson (August 13th-September 10th 2011)
"Green Doors, New Orleans" donated to Sensational Small Stuff 2011 at the Nicolaysen Art Museum (April 2011)
"le Château, Bruniquel" selected for the online gallery of The Language of Light exhibition @ The PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont. Juror Paul Paletti, founder and director of Paul Paletti Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky (March 29-April 23 2011)
"Sad Flowers, Big Tesuque" published in the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops' Summer/Fall 2011 catalogue (March 2011)
"Prayers for Healing, El Santuario de Chimayo" donated to Wyoming Art for the Cure 2011 (April 2011)
"Prayers for Healing, El Santuario de Chimayo" and "Buddha's Blessing, the Great Stupa at Red Feathers" in Religion at the Corridor Gallery/Casper, Wyoming (December 2010)
"Boys of Summer Past" and "Sequoia National Park #3"Merit Awards in Color Magazine Single Image Contest 2010 (published March 2010)
"Boys of Summer Past" in Wyoming Art for the Cure (April 2010)
"Liberty 2, NYC"/"Flat Iron 2, NYC"/"Imagine 2, NYC" in Sensational Small Stuff at the Nicolaysen Art Museum (April 2010)
Participating artist in "20/20" sponsored by the UW Art MUseum in conjunction with the Wyoming Arts Council (April 2010)
"Young Aspen" in Santa Fe Photographic Workshops e-newsletter (September 2010)
Photography Education
Introduction to Processing and Printing, University of Wyoming (summer '88)
Nikon School of Photography, Denver, Colorado (April '99)
Contax "Secrets of Photography" Seminar, Boulder, Colorado (April '00)
Digital Photo Solutions (Ed Pierce Seminar) Denver, Colorado (March '03)
Adobe Photoshop Intensive/The Santa Fe Photography Workshops/Jerry Courvoisier
(April '08)
Rocky Mountain Photo Adventures/Weldon Lee (October '09)
Studio and Location Porttraits/ Bobbi Lane @ Northwest Community College
(May '10)
The Natural Eye/The Santa Fe Photography Workshops/
Eddie Soloway (July '10)
The Photographic Life/The Life of a Photograph/Sam Abell
@ Northwest Community College (September '10)
Workshops Taught
I taught journalism and photography for 16 years at Natrona County High School.
Photography workshop for Walsworth Publishing: Processing and Printing
(Fall '90)
Photography workshop for Walsworth Publishing: Processing and Printing
(Fall '92)
Photography workshop for Walsworth Publishing: Photographic Composition/
and Designing a Publications Staff Handbook (session for advisers) (Fall '93)
Understanding Exposure: Photography Workshop for the 1995 Wyoming High School Student Press Association State Conference (October '95)
MetaComposition: Photography lecture/slideshow for KWHS Digital Photography
(October '09)
Five Easy Pieces: an Introduction to Digital Photogreaphy/ five week/2 hour class for KWHS faculty and staff (March-April '11)
Five Easy Pieces: an Introduction to Digital Photogreaphy/ five week/2 hour class for NCSD#1 faculty and staff (October-November 2011)
Photography Awards/Publications/Exhibitions
3rd Place Faculty Division ($500) for "Shells" in 1999 Black & White Print Competition,
sponsored by Eastman Kodak and the Photo District News
(August'99)/published in PDN (September '99)
Come to Casper for Your Kids’ Sakes: photographs for NCSD #1 publication
(Spring ’92)
"Hat Six Road"/ "Storm and Sunflowers" (b & w photographs) in Wyoming Works, exhibition at Nicolaysen Art Museum;
jurored by Gordon McConnell,
curator of the Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana (June & July '97)
"Prairie Woman" (b& w photograph) accepted to Photo Biennial '94 exhibition at the Westport Arts Center,Westport, Connecticut;
jurored by Larry Silver and John Craig; Melissa Harris, Juror of Awards
(September 23-October 16, '94)
"Twin Buttes" (b&w photograph) accepted to From Sea to Shining Sea 1995: Images of the American Landscape
at the Snowgrass Institute, Cashmere, Washington;
jurored by Alan Moen and Susan Kidd
(November 25-December 10, '95)
"Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado" and "Parched" (b&w photographs) in 1996 Wyoming Works exhibition
at Nicolaysen Art Museum,
jurored by Kathryn Mallory, Gallery Director
at the University of Montana (May 11-July 14, '96)
"April Snow", "Rural Route", and "Red Buttes" (b&w photographs) in One Day in the Life of Wyoming, sponsored by the Casper Artists' Guild.
Jurors Mike Keogh and Adam Jahiel (July 8-July 31, '96)
"Dunes at Ferris"; "Arches, NYC"; "Haystack #1, Medicine Bow" (b&w photographs) in Images 1997,
sponsored by the Casper Artists' Guild. Awards
Judge Devendra Shrihande. (January 7-January 29,'97)
"Black & White" (photograph) donated to the Associate's Auction/ Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana (November '99)
"Holy Places" (photograph) published in Shutterbug magazine (June '02)
"Selected Images from This Place on Earth: the Wyoming images"/ photography exhibition at Metro Coffee Company (August 8-Sept. 5 '05)
"Running Bear, YNP" (photograph) Postcards from the Wild Wild West/
Nicolaysen Art Museum (April '07)
10 images donated to silent auction for Schools4Schools/Invisible Children Program (February '08)
"Flora 1", " Flora 2", "Flora 3" (color photographs) Postcards from the Wild Wild West/Nicolaysen Art Museum (April '08)
"Door #1, Santa Fe" (color photograph) donated to KWHS for Cinco de Mayo Key Club fundraiser (May'08)
dix jours: France 2008 /photography exhibition (20 images) at
Metro Coffee Company (October '08)
"Flora"/"San Miguel Church" (color photographs) published in the Santa Fe Photography Workshops 20th Anniversary Calendar (December '08)
"Taos", "Ranchos de Taos", and "Blue Door #2, Taos Pueblo" (color photographs)
Postcards from the Wild Wild West/ Nicolaysen Art Museum (April '09)
"Boys of Summer Past" and "Sequoia National Park #3"/Merit Awards in Color Magazine Single Image Contest 2010 (published March 2010)
Photography Projects
This Place on Earth: the Wyoming Images ('90-2010)
dix jours: France 2008 (2008)
Beautiful Obsession: Santa Fe and the Southwest (2009)
Alley Waltz: Behind, Between and Beneath (2009)
West Coast Blues: California Days (2009)
Before the Deluge: the Big Apple and the Big Easy (2009)
Sleepy Eye: Mexico and the Caribbean (2009)
Stone and Blossom: Washington, D.C. (2009)
Locomotion: the Art of Transportation (2009)
Still Is Still Moving: Still Life (2009)
The Fall Lines: Chasing Autumn (2010)
Semana Santa: Travels in Spain (2011)
Equipment
Like Annie Leibovitz, my first 35mm camera was a Minolta SR-T101.
Two of these galleries were shot with little point and shoot cameras.
Sometimes it's not about the equipment.
I currently use a Nikon D300 and a Nikon D700.
I print with an Epson 3800 Pro.
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