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Your Bio

A lifelong North Carolinian, I'm a retired English instructor whose background in photography goes back to the days of film work with my Pentax 6x7 and courses and frequent darkroom work with Wayne Upchurch, to whom I'm indebted for some insights into photography, at Cape Fear Community College, where I taught English. In the mid 1980's I had a show of infrared images in a Wilmington gallery accompanied by a booklet of short poems and photographs called "Pathways and Gradations." I enjoy landscape and travel photography but am intrigued by a variety of other types of photography as well, including infrared. I am a member of the Photographic Society of America and a member of my local Cape Fear Camera Club.


A little bit of my philosophy of photography and of life as well is touched on in one of my poems, "The Moment":

Take a moment of your life and freeze the frame;
look for the quality of tone you thought was there--
that you kept reaching for but seldom held--
hiding behind existence.

When the light seems right,
when streaks of sunlight penetrate the dark
and kindle hope and memory,
insight and action are one.

You can preserve an image for a while
against the vagaries of change and loss:
press hard the shutter of this moment now,
until only the beauty remains.

Lad Bright

Gallery Categories

Infrared

1 gallery with 26 photos

Updated: Dec 07, 2012 6:24pm PST

Altered Reality

1 gallery with 42 photos

Updated: Oct 09, 2012 7:01am PST

Around the Cape Fear

2 galleries with 103 photos

Updated: Jul 04, 2012 2:12pm PST

Abstractions

1 gallery with 15 photos

Updated: May 25, 2012 9:10pm PST

Landscapes

4 galleries with 73 photos

Updated: May 25, 2012 8:20pm PST

France

1 gallery with 42 photos

Updated: May 25, 2012 8:06pm PST

Small World

1 gallery with 28 photos

Updated: Jan 31, 2012 12:09pm PST

Doors, Gates, and Windows

1 gallery with 29 photos

Updated: Dec 07, 2011 9:17pm PST

Architecture

1 gallery with 12 photos

Updated: Dec 07, 2011 8:17pm PST

Florida Keys

1 gallery with 22 photos

Updated: May 05, 2011 7:21am PST

Crete

2 galleries with 57 photos

Updated: Sep 17, 2010 8:47pm PST

Other

1 gallery with 1 photo

Updated: Aug 01, 2010 1:52pm PST