Bill Conway Brings His Tutorial on Panoramics to VPS
Rick Barnard
Photographer Bill Conway will bring
his tutorial on panoramics to VPS in January. A well-known landscape and nature
photographer, Bill also is an educator and photographic judge who lectures
about the techniques involved in stitching several photographs together to
create a single image, or panoramic.
However, he maintains that the greatest challenge for
photographers is not in developing new techniques or buying the latest
equipment but “to learn to see” the images before them. “I am convinced that we pass by a myriad
of beautiful compositions each day and never realize it because we either fail
to take the time to see them or never develop the capacity to see and
appreciate them,” he says.
Among the dozens of compositions on Bill’s website are
an abandoned boat in a Chincoteague marsh, “A Drum Point Morning,” captured in
southern Maryland, herons nesting near Venice, Fla., and an Amish plowing team
photographed in Kinzer, PA. “My
greatest fascination is the outdoors and subjects found throughout nature,
especially majestic landscapes.” Bill says.
A life-long photographer, Bill began taking
photographs in elementary school with a Bakelite 120 box camera. During his
years as a construction superintendent, photography was a means to document
conditions and record the progress of his projects. Today, Bill relies on
medium format cameras and lenses and converts his film negatives and
transparencies into high-resolution digital images, along with using digital
cameras.
Bill says the most rewarding part of his work is to
create an image that “touches that special place in the viewer,” making it
“something to be cherished.”
His photographs are available at www.flickr.com/photos/bill_conway/ Bill’s guest appearance with VPS is scheduled Jan. 7.