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I
enjoyed photography as a child and expanded on the interest as
a young adult with black and white darkroom work.
Children, graduate school, and work as a psychologist
in the many years since have kept me busy and away from the
darkroom. Now,
happily wandering along that digital yellow brick road, I’m
back to seeing the world through the lens of a camera.
The
idea of creating abstracts from photographs came to me in
2002. My eyes
were color-starved after months of the winter whites of the
Idaho mountains when I traveled to Mexico, and there I began
to focus my camera on rich colors and textures for their
inherent beauty. The
abstracts first developed as a sort of digital collage,
becoming more complex as I experimented with opacity.
Joy
Hamilton
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I
have been involved with photography for over 30 years, initially as
a hobby, but now as a serious endeavor ,
one I love and find continually challenging. My objective is to
capture and create lasting images of high quality, both in color and
black and white. The earlier work was with film, but over the past 5
years or so I have been making the transition from film to digital
photography, and now do virtually all of my work in digital form,
from the capture of the image with a digital camera through computer
“dark room” processing to printing. To enhance all areas
of my photographic ability, I became a member of photography clubs
and groups, where the sharing of photo work has been rewarding and
highly enjoyable. I have begun submitting my work to competitions,
juried exhibitions and evaluations and have received local, regional
and national awards. Some of my photos appear in the
McCall-Donnelly Education Foundation coffee table photo book “Images
of McCall, Valley County and Beyond” (Far Country Press,
2006) and in Photographer's Forum "Best Photographs of
2006".
Howard
Hamilton |