Photographer Profile: Carol Aldinger
Born on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula, Carol Aldinger was raised to love the natural world, and the critters and flowers that abounded in her “back yard”. Although that interest was put on hold during college years in Pullman, WA (BS – Chemistry), and a detour as an Army wife, it was rekindled on moving to Wyoming in 1970, and became a life long love affair.
Photography was a very natural outgrowth of this love of the outdoors, and has been enjoyed from childhood. It really became a passion after living in the Orient for a year and acquiring her first “good” camera. Afterwards, settling in Wyoming, with all the abundant photo opportunities in the wilderness areas, National Parks, and other nearby mountains, there was limitless chance to hone the skills of “seeing” for the camera.
Trips throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Glacier Park, and the parks of Utah, as well as trips to Paris, central Mexico, and the Yucatan archeological sites have resulted in thousands of additional photo gems. Photography has become her preferred way to share the beauty in all these special places.
Equipment is minimal, a Nikon N-70 body, a Nikor 28-105mm zoom lens with macro capabilities, a couple filters, a telephoto extender, and tripod. On backpack trips even the tripod gets left behind. (Usually Mother Nature provides a stable tree trunk or stump.)
The advent of digital age skills has resulted in the scanning and cataloging of over 8000 transparencies at medium resolution of 1400dpi. Of these, the first best 300 are in the process of being rescanned at maximum resolution of 2900dpi. This will be an ongoing project with time out for our summer job in Utah’s Ashley National Forest. Come see us at Flaming Gorge Dam!
