My photographic challenge is to grab one's attention, to create a spark of excitement and to successfully communicate my vision to the eyes and mind of a perfect stranger.

THE EYE

Only the eye can drink

From a lake a mile away

Or climb ten mountain in

Less time than it takes to say,

Land on the moon, the stars;

Fall, rise, hurdle, sprint;

Put a lid on the world

Or narrow it to a squint.

Lovers of light, whose lies

Deceive us doctors say,

Let physics chew surmise

Dine out on the crusty day

And drink the sun's gold wine,

Devouring all that seems,

From color, form, and depth

Concoct your optic dreams

And give them to the mind

As its best evidence.

Then only, thought may grind

A harder sharper lens.

Gray Burr (b. 1919)

The goal of my Photography is to stimulate the viewer's own imagination. It seeks to share the feelings of warmth, beauty, pleasure, and delight I felt when viewing the scene. If I have communicated my art successfully, it becomes brain candy for the observer’s visual senses.

"The human eye sees,

the finger moves,

the eye of the stopper

blinks after the cold lens

and a light outbreak

impregnates the film.

It already spent the moment

but in the memory,

the memory of that moment

lies now captive,

fragment of catched time,

that hopes to see itself revived

a shaped bidimensional existence

in a piece of paper,

like fragile test of which it has happened

or of that it was

or it was.

Certainly to that

almost all photography is confined:

to a chain of simple physical phenomena

forged by a cereblal desire

to perpetuate the present".

… (from the book, Artistic Composition for photographers by Luis René Morilla -translated from the Spanish)

At one time I had an on-line Photography business. I have recently had photographs selected for exclusive display, and sold, at White Space Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.

My photographs have also been selected for inclusion in the newly released fourth edition of the Schmap Wellington Travel Guide as well as in NowPublic, a news gathering organization based in Vancouver, Canada.

I have photos included in an exhibition at the German Mining Museum in Bochum dealing with the mining of the raw material copper, and its exploitation in the Chilean Andes. My photos also are included in a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, a UK based charity working internationally to combat the environmental and social issues related to shrimp farming.

Panraven, an online photo book creation company, has purchased hundreds of my photos from all over the world for their online user's gallery. My photos have been posted to, and recognized by, National Geographic On-Line.

I like the current Nikon line of SLR's and my main squeeze is a D-90, but I am planning on purchasing a full-frame professional Nikon camera in the future. I have used the Nikon D-70s and the D-80 for many years before upgrading to the D-90. I have also done some shootring with the Canon line of cameras (10D, 30D), and the S-1 and S-3 which are good value for the money, but the main drawback is that there s-series have a fixed lens system.

The Nikon seems to fit my hand better and it has a wide-range auto- ISO feature that Cannon does not offer (although they do have a similar, rather limited, feature).

The Nikon's auto-ISO feature is great when you are shooting early in the morning and as the light begins to change in the evening.

I have a number of short and long zoom lenses for the Nikon which I switch out as needed. I prefere zoom lenese to fix once because they give me more versility.

All that said, a National Geo photographer I once met told me that it is not the camera, or even the len, that makes a great pictures. It is what is behind the camera that counts! Your eye and imagination are the most important elements.

Cheers,

rrr (retrorocketrick)