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Come Wander Along with Me...

I wander...it is simply what I do.  Since I was a young girl, my parent's tried everything to keep me close to home, going to such  measures as to buy me goats.  Though I loved my goats, my heart still  wandered.  

Growing up in rural New Jersey, I was surrounded by dense woods and long stretches of farm land to fuel my imagination.   I felt at home in the arms of the forest and spent many days laying upon the fragrant mossy soil staring up through the filter of leaves... watching the light dance.  It is these experiences that I work to remember.

In adulthood, I discovered the joy of capturing those precious moments, through my camera's lens.  Though the many years in between my youth and the present, I have enjoyed many wonderful adventures and am currently wandering in another people's land.  For the past 10 years I have had the pleasure of living in Europe and learning to look at life in a very different way.   

Through my images and my wanderings, I hope you will enjoy seeing the world around you... in a new way.

So...I invite you to "Come Wander Along with Me..."

Sharing the Passion…more from the Expo

photo-Expo-7sigsmThrough the Large Format Photography forum we have been lucky enough to meet a fellow large format addict…who is denial of the aforementioned affliction.

It was he who told us about the Photo Expo in Houten Netherlands, so we arranged a meet up at the event.

Eddie Gunks, with a character as large as his camera, he shared with us his passion for the craft and some of his amazing imagery.

Using photographic “Dark Arts”, Daguerreotype, Collodion (wet plate) and other almost forgotten techniques, he developed his timeless imagery.

In future blogs we will be discussing more in depth these techniques and the Masters rediscovering the mystique of returning to the very roots of photography.  I hope you will continue to follow along on our journey.

December 5, 2009 - 01:28 Phil Vaughn - The "old ways" really do have a magical quality. The photographer almost becomes an alchemist--and is certainly someone with a lot of patience. In this digital age, we seem to lose some of that. I enjoyed seeing what Eddie Gunks has accomplished.

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