Travels In Arizona - The Petrified Forest Overview
This work has approximately 63 pages and about 60 color and monochrome images.
The Petrified Forest is a national park located in North East Arizona (co-ordinates for the GPS proficient are: 35°05'17" 109°48'23"W). The area was established as a national monument in 1906 and was named for its large number of fossilized (petrified) trees.
Containing a large number of fossils as well as the petrified trees the area was formed during the late Triassic period approximately 225 million years ago. As a photographer I find the area quite fascinating as the landscape changes dramatically with every change of light, sun, and clouds.
The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior.
After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine.
Since that time he had had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science.
After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera.
The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona.
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