Nature Photography
I have been photographing Nature as long as I have had access to a camera. In high school I often tried to document plants and animals that interested me, but my tools had many limitations. At Texas Tech I was too occupied with college life to be able to spend much time behind a camera, with the exception of a trip to Mexico with my chum, Tom Kreneck, in 1969. We visited mostly historically interesting sights, but I also took pictures of some of the trees and cacti with an inexpensive Kodak Instamatic camera.
Upon graduation in 1971, I moved to Puerto Rico where I encased my cheap camera in a water-tight box and took many pictures of the coral reefs and rain forests. This tropical adventure woke my senses to Nature in a big way, and I changed my major to Bioligy (from Philosophy, my Texas Tech bachelor of arts) and returned to Texas to attend graduate school. There I began a more systematic approach to documenting Nature with my first serious camera, a Nikon. I took many pictures of plants and animals using Kodachrome.
For years I assembled a large archive of slides, and when digital cameras came out I steadfastly resisted. Finally a good friend and benefactor, Clay Allison, upgraded his digital camera and loaned me his Canon EOS.
Upon graduation in 1971, I moved to Puerto Rico where I encased my cheap camera in a water-tight box and took many pictures of the coral reefs and rain forests. This tropical adventure woke my senses to Nature in a big way, and I changed my major to Bioligy (from Philosophy, my Texas Tech bachelor of arts) and returned to Texas to attend graduate school. There I began a more systematic approach to documenting Nature with my first serious camera, a Nikon. I took many pictures of plants and animals using Kodachrome.
For years I assembled a large archive of slides, and when digital cameras came out I steadfastly resisted. Finally a good friend and benefactor, Clay Allison, upgraded his digital camera and loaned me his Canon EOS.
