Christopher Doerr Photography

~ pho·tog·ra·phy[ fə tóggrəfee ] ~

NOUN

1. producing pictures with camera: the art, hobby, or profession of taking photographs, and developing and printing the film or processing the digitized array image

2. using light to make pictures: the process of recording images by exposing light-sensitive film or array to light or other forms of radiation

Photography is both an art and a science. Photography allows us to express our feelings and emotions or share an experience by capturing brief moments in time in a very unique and special way; each photo an inimitable and personal story, one as distinctive as a snowflake, one never to be captured again.

But to do so artfully we need to master both our artistic vision and our understanding of the science of the medium we use, for unlike a painter, who is in direct contact with his subject and his canvas, a photographer is separated from his subject by the camera and from his "canvas" by computers and printers today, and in the past; darkroom equipment.