Richard Heather
Richard Heather built his first darkroom at age
8 with an enlarger bought by his grandmother with S&H Green stamps.
At 13 his friend showed him three large prints by Ansel Adams that his
father had just purchased. A show and lecture by Adams started a passion
for black and white photography. Over the next 25 years color film was
used only occasionally. Compared to B&W there was little control of
the final product. The computer has brought total control of the image
pixel by pixel and unleashed the use of "pure " colors rather than shades
of gray or pastel.
Most images were photographed
with 35 mm slide film, processed by Kodak and scanned to a Kodak Photo
CD. The digital images were manipulated with Micrografx Picture
Publisher or Picture Window. These images were printed
with an Epson Stylus Color inkjet printer. Unfortunately, the ink
dyes are not archival and will fade with time and UV exposure as will most
color processes.
Visit on the internet at:
http://www.slonet.org/~rheather
Send email to
rheather@slonet.org