Richard N Wight

 

Photographer - Graphic Artist

I didn’t buy my first camera until I was in my twenties. It was a Bolsey Compact 35mm by Wollensak. Once I started with that, I was hooked. Now, more than twenty-five years later, I still love this art that is poetically called; ‘Painting With Light’. What makes it so special to me is that outside of the studio, photographers must work with what is offered; light, line, and subject as it is. The challenge of then applying knowledge, creative intuition and skill to create in a scene just the right balance and composition so as to please the eye, tell a story or make a point is addictive to me. The measure of success for a picture is in finding something new each time it is viewed.

For the past two years I have been attending on-line classes at San Francisco's Academy of Art University in pursuit of a degree in Web Design and New Media. It's been a bit of a change-up for me since for twenty-five years before that I worked in military and aerospace electronics as a Research Engineering Technician. To go from a world in which there is very detailed structure to one which can be at times very much subjective was something of a shock to my system.....in a good way. I'm finding a great deal of satisfaction in feeding the other side of my brain for a change. What the future holds is once again an enticing mystery.