Glenn Carter was born in the small southeast Arkansas City of DeWitt in 1954. He began shooting nature photography at the age of 15 when his parents gave him a Kodak 127 film camera. He began with photos of his home and family. Then later during his 11 year tour in the U. S. Air Force he continued as the site photographer at Murhpy Dome Air Force Station 26 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. There he was trained in medium format photography and darkroom film and print processing techniques. After his military career he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He continued sharpening his photographic skills as time went on. The only thing that has changed since then is the technology of digital cameras which continues to evolve. The thing that has never changed is his love for the outdoors and the desire to capture the magnificence of God's creation in an image to be enjoyed by all.
Today Glenn shoots with a Mamiya 6x7 film camera and a Nikon D-200 10.2 mega pixel digital camera. He still maintains a film and paper photo lab at his residence in Fayetteville as well as a digital lab. Glenn recognizes that while some images are worth the effort required to capture on film and print with an enlarger, there are ever advancing technological breakthroughs in digital photography which cannot be ignored. Therefore he uses film and digital as the situation dictates.
Regardless of the equipment used, Glenn knows that it is the composition, the lighting, the mood, and the very essence of a moment in time which connects a viewer to an image. This only comes together when a photographer visualizes an image before he ever picks up the camera. Then his job is to put that vision on paper or digital media to be displayed or printed. Glenn learned this teaching from the writings of Ansel Adams. It is Glenn's desire that the viewer see what he saw and feel what he felt before the shutter was ever released.
Some of his work is displayed here for your enjoyment. Comments and requests are welcome.
