Artist Statement
As a photographic artist, I seek to create images with a sense of place, moment, drama, beauty. The camera is just the starting point – through the digital darkroom I embrace the freedom to shape an image to express what I see in my mind’s eye; to evoke the feelings of awe, wonder, excitement, or the simple joy of being there in that place and time.
Artist Bio
I fell in love with photography when I was ten years old, capturing a (now extinct) Dutch Elm tree in our backyard in New Hampshire. Six years in the US Air Force on the ground and in the air, always with a camera, was followed by engineering school in Massachusetts and forty-five years as an electrical engineer working out of my home office in Pittsburgh. I finished my career as an engineering manager for a top ten semiconductor company, responsible for delivering conferences and training engineers on location throughout South America and the United States.
In 2021 I retired, and with the encouragement of an internationally respected artist friend, turned my full attention to that which I had always loved the most – capturing the wide world through my lens with the eyes of an artist. My passion is what I call the art of travel: return from a journey wiser than when you left, prepared to share what you saw and learned.
I presently serve on the executive board of the Pittsburgh Photography Club, one of the oldest in the US, and the Photographic Progress Award Committee for the PSA. My work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Pennsylvania, in New York City, and in the Greene Gallery in Oklahoma City.
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I am a travel and fine art photographer who has traveled the world for over half a century. I create photographs to evoke the feelings of awe, wonder, excitement, or the simple joy of being there in that place and time.
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Shirley Walsh
5 Jun 2022I am really impressed. What a full and interesting life you have led. Can’t wait for further adventures and accomplishments.
Stu_C
7 Nov 2022Thanks so much for your kind words! After a long quiet period I’m starting ramp up again, and even get out of the house occasionally ;-). I’ll be posting some updates soon. Thanks, hope you will be back in your home soon after Hurricane Ian.
Dan Thompson
20 Oct 2022Can you tell which one of the think tank bags you had at the presentation at the Pittsburgh Photo presentation two weeks ago. Thanks
Dan
Stu_C
7 Nov 2022Hi Dan! Thanks for asking – I use the Think Tank Photo Airport Essentials (here’s a B&H link -> https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/859421-REG/Think_Tank_483_Airport_Essentials_Backpack_Black.html). It’s just the right size for my Sony A7ii, Zeiss/G-Master lenses, MacBook Pro and iPad, yet fits under the seat of any size commercial airplane. I did try it on my brother’s Cherokee, and it didn’t fit there, but nothing larger than a tissue box would.