"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
"Boys of Summer Past" and "Sequoia National Park #3"
Merit Awards in Color Magazine Single Image Contest 2010
(published March 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)
Workshops Taught
I taught journalism and photography for 16 years at Natrona County High School,
Casper, Wyoming
Photography workshop for Walsworth Publishing (fall ’90): Processing and Printing
Photography workshop for Walsworth Publishing (fall ’91):Processing and Printing
Photography workshop for Walsworth Publishing (fall ’93): Photographic Composition/
and Designing a Publications Staff Handbook (session for advisers)
"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)
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 inPDN
(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 and July '94)
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 (40 images) 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)
Nothing But A Burning Light (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 Lifes (2009)
The Fall Lines (2010)
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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