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Ralph R. Sell
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01-Georgetown
Sushi, Washington
,
DC
2008 02-Las Mariposas Monarcas,
Sierra Chincua, Mexico 2005
03-Dia
de los muertos, San Miquel de Allende, Mexico 2005
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04-
Broad Creek
,
Virginia
2008 05- Byrd Park Sky,
Richmond
, Virginia 2008
06- Shields
& Grove, Richmond VA 2008
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07-James
River near Pipeline,
Richmond
,
VA
2009 08-Urban Tractor @ Northumberland & Lombardy, Richmond VA 2009
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While attending high school near
Allentown
,
Pennsylvania
, a photojournalist uncle started my interest in photography with an enlarger
and his stash of out-of-date black and white chemicals and paper.
Uncle Gerry’s Speed Graflex shots of family and events still sparkle
and inspire. By the late 1960s while
in the US Army, I acquired a Pentax Spotmatic.
This camera and related lenses photographed with me from
Germany
to
Morocco
. After graduate study at
Penn
State
, during a mid-1980s teaching stint in
Cairo
,
Egypt
, the Spotmatic went missing. Point
and shoot family, pets and travel dominated the next 20 years of picture taking,
mainly with several Canon film and digital cameras.
The digital conversion and enhancement of the resulting slides and photos
reacquainted me with the creative powers of photography.
It also answered my wife’s questions about why we kept dragging along
all those old unused Pentax lenses. They’re
now attached to a Pentax K10D SLR and used to explore how high dynamic rage and
tone mapping techniques can present common-place subjects in engaging ways.
The Focus Group CC photographers’ interests will certainly expand my
project with their diverse and stimulating insights into the creative power of
images.
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