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Bill Lindsey
My Grandfather was an amateur photographer and liked to make 3D stereoscope
viewers to view his three dimensional photographs. I liked to play
with the unusually shaped lenses that he used for his viewers. Bringing
them up close to my eye, I could observe objects placed in front of
them and by twisting the lenses from side to side: I could distort
whatever I looked at to suit my imagination. Some of the lenses were
spheres that he used to make his wide angle cameras. These too provided
hours of fascination for me. When I put them up to my eyes and looked
inside at the spectral highlight, I would be visually transformed
into another world. Slowly turning each sphere and imagining myself
in these strange worlds of glass. He was a quiet renaissance man.
He always wanted to build his own cameras that he used in his portraits
and scenes that he photographed. He loved light and especially the
way light would skim across surfaces; revealing textures and depth
to whatever it touched. I think I inherited this way of seeing light.
My first camera was a Kodak Brownie Holiday. It used 127 size film
and shot with a square format.
My Uncle sent me a film developing kit for my tenth birthday. It was
complete with chemicals, paper and a printing frame to make contact
prints. From then on, I was hooked.
Today, I shoot mostly digital for my product work; with a 30-70 mixture
of black & white and color.
I love to experiment with different kinds of lenses and seeing things
in a different way. ( I'm left handed ) to involve myself inside the
image, not just look at it. I'm always trying to do some kind of special
effects with my photography. One of my favorite techniques is painting
with light. This technique takes a lot of concentration and time to
do it right, so it isn't something to enter into for the instant gratification
type.
Painting with the computer:
Some of my latest efforts have been to make paintings with my computer
and my imagination using images that I have taken. I then composite
images into one story to produce a painting. Most of my paintings
are fantasy oriented and range from 28x17 to 49x17 inches.
The World wide Web:
A while back, only local customers were seeing my work. I was tired
of trying to decide whether to make prints of my work to show clients,
or to use slides. I decided to use the electronic medium as my portfolio.
As my client base has grown, so has my audience on the Internet.
The daily exposure to my work has multiplied, and I receive e-mail
from interested people wanting to see more along with photography
students wanting to learn about my techniques or asking for advice.
Most of my work today is a combination of straight photography,
and digital images merging to form a digital stock library for use
as my customers needs arise. I am making a commitment to photograph
at least one subject per week from a list of stock photo subjects,
and digitizing them to my library.
I am trying to communicate ideas, points of view and visual technology
to merge together into art and science. I find these two disciplines
converging to become the new visual frontier in our contemporary
world.
Going deeper:
My work centers around composition, motion, color, portraiture,
and lighting that has both content and context implications for
the viewer.
My customers are looking for the new and unusual, rich with form
and function. They are a combination of technical and creative art
buyers, directors, editors, and writers looking for an outlet of
usable images at a reasonable price.
Weddings:
I love weddings because they combine a tiny bit of every genre:
Portraiture, photojournalism, and still lifes. The emotions in this
environment are so rich with photo- opportunities, that I have a
difficult time knowing when to stop the creative process once I
start. I strive to see things in a new and different perspective
from one photograph to the next, to tell a story for future generations
to enjoy.
Interactive projects:
I am presently working on a mixed media project which includes a
sense of the passage of time with interactivity through a virtual
time tunnel. This project will send the viewer through a gallery
of special effects complete with stereo sound and my latest photo-illustration
Projects I love to do:
I love to travel for assignments profiling artists, illustrating
their life styles.
The photography of food has always fascinated me and is at the top
of my wish list.
Special effects photography and abstractions done on the Internet
is an interactive project that is now being done as a work in progress.
Barn owl ( Tyto Alba ) dossier'
It started out simple: Accompany a wildlife Biologist to New Jersey
and photograph several barn owls along with their habitats. Take
slides and bring along a video camera to record flight patterns
at night etc.
After spending a considerable amount of time living among mosquitoes,
and camping out in a number of barns, I had acquired a sizable amount
of slides, photographs, videos, sound recordings and facts about
this night hunter: to complete a dossier' on the Common Barn owl
( Tyto Alba ).
This collection includes detailed studies of eyes, talon, feathers,
drawings of skeletal structures, close-ups of wings and studies
written about this incredible bird.
I have completed a video targeted for children filled with facts
about the barn owl to help make them aware of how they can encourage
others to protect this endangered species.
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