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"Lotus--Echoes of Light" (24h), Equal Merit Award,
About this Site This site, GerryGanttPhotography.com, is primarily a showcase for my Nature and Scenic Photography. It is also a Nature Site in that I am making an attempt to show a lot of interesting subjects from a Naturalist's viewpoint. Most of the time, an interesting Naturalist photo will also be a great art photograph, but sometimes I haven't been able to get that defining photo and the one that is available is intended to show what a species looks like while I search for a subject that is more cooperative. Either way, I try to present a species in a way that is as informative as it is enjoyable. If you have a comment on something, please drop me a line at GerryGantt@att.net. Thanks and have a great visit here, visually and educationally. Artist’s Statement Gerry Gantt has been taking Nature and Scenic Photographs since 1967. Camera equipment has been various Nikon® cameras and lenses. His current camera is a Nikon D2x digital camera with a 70-200 mm telephoto and 2x Tele-converter (210-600 mm with the chip and multiplication factors taken into account) for Nature work and an 18-200 mm (28-300mm) zoom lens for Scenic work. His recent Scenic venue has been Thailand and that country’s beautiful Buddhist Wats. Films used in the past have been exclusively Kodak® slide films, including Kodachrome 25 and 64 and Ektachrome 100 as the Ektachrome emulsions were improved over the years. Gerry's method for finding interesting Nature shots is to seek them out rather than waiting for them to come to him. Both methods have merit and each will produce great photographs, but prowling around works better for this photographer. He also prefers to picture animals doing something besides just sitting somewhere, if possible. Simple portraits are nice, but depicting an animal doing something characteristic of the species tells the viewer more than just what it looks like. Of course, Scenic photos, of necessity, require that the photographer go to them. Here, the most important factors in obtaining a good shot are time of day, sky conditions and time of year. Gerry has been a member of the Northern Virginia Handcrafters Guild since 2003 and a board member of the organization since 2005. He is also a member of the League of Reston Artists, Reston Photographic Society, Herndon Council for the Arts, and American Craft Council. His photographs have been displayed for sale at local Arts and Crafts Shows in the Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland areas since 2001. All photos are shown in extensive galleries at GerryGanttPhotography.com where they may also be purchased. Printing techniques in the past have utilized the Cibachrome® materials from Illford®. Currently, the photographer works exclusively in the digital medium in Adobe PhotoShop® with a Nikon ES-4000 slide/film scanner for scanning slides. Of course, the digital equipment now in use requires no intermediary for bringing images into PhotoShop®. Prints are generated using a Canon® ImagePrograf® iPF5000 Photo Printer which uses Canon’s Lucia® twelve-color pigment ink system to achieve sharp, archival quality prints up to 16x20 inches in size. All prints are mounted and framed using acid-free mats and adhesives. |
