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Tom
has been active in professional photography since 2004 after
taking classes in the photography department at KVCC in
Kalamazoo, MI. Tom travels extensively within the USA as well
as Europe. His goal is to capture the beauty of color and the
mood of a scene and display its effects reminiscent of a
painting in the form of photography. The joy of creating an
original image and seeing it for the first time, a scene at
first light, is magical as a dream.
Tom was born and raised in Muskegon, MI, enlisted in the Army
and spent two years stationed in Germany in the mid 1980’s.
This is where his love of traveling developed. He graduated
with a BA in Business Administration from Western Michigan
University in 1992 and since has remained in Kalamazoo.
Tom has been photographing for 20 years but only recently in
2004 decided to go professional and work at his art in which
is on-going. His interests include scenics, still lifes, black
& white and fine art photography. Tom works primarily in
digital using the Canon 5D and also actively uses medium
format and 35mm film cameras for various black & white, color
slide and infra red shoots. He works in Adobe Photoshop CS2
and prints his images on an Epson 4000 professional printer
using archival inks, papers, foam core boards and matting. Tom
also works on occasion in Corel Painter 9 transforming his
images into painterly effects.
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