Picture this…
What would you enjoy the most? An easily forgettable black and white text message or email buried beneath innumerable notes somewhere on your electronic device (“turtles all the way down”); or, a real card with a vivid colorful image from our natural world, that is pleasing to view with a personal note inside, written by an actual person who is important to you? I have the answer for you. The images on my pretty good greeting cards will enable you to express your feelings in a truly meaningful way and holding a physical card with words written by your hand will be memorialized.
A pleasurable experience is always enhanced when it can be shared with someone special. For many years, I have captured beautiful images of nature, predominantly of birds and flowers. I love to see their colors and unique morphology. Unfortunately, like us they are all transient. However, these images preserve them, at least for a while longer, and allow me to share the pleasure that I obtained when I witnessed them and pressed the shutter button. Bob
Technical Comments: The photographs used for these cards were obtained with an Olympus E-M1 Mark III camera. I generally used Olympus M Zuiko Digital 12-100 mm 1:4 or Olympus M Zuiko 100-400 mm lens and rarely Olympus 60 mm 1:2.8 Macro lens. Images were printed with a Canon ProGraf 1000 printer on Pecos River Gloss 60 lb paper obtained from Red River Paper.
Biographical Comments: I was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. I began taking photos with a Kodak camera when I was 10 years old and was sent away to Colorado for camp. I began more serious photography when I was in Medical School (KUMC) during which I used a Minolta SLR and processed all of my own slides. I began medical photography in order to make material for professional presentations. While living in Utah, I have expanded my interest to include landscapes and nature. For the past 15 years, I have focused on videography mostly of my family in which I mesh still images with videos and pretty random music. Practicing pulmonary and sleep medicine for ~50 years has been highly gratifying, especially when every thing went well. However, for everyone creativity is essential for emotional well being and satisfaction. Accordingly, photography has been critically important to me.