Violin Scroll on Dark Green Velvet Acrylic Print

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Close-up of violin scroll with pleasing lighting... a Chiaroscuro effect is used here to highlight the beauty of the tiger maple scroll. The violin is from an early 20th Century German school of violin-making, and is modeled after the style of Guarneri.

I’ve been capturing images that tickle my brain ever since my parents handed me my first camera in 4th grade- a well-loved old Brownie Starflex. My “thing” is lighting—the more natural, the better. Back-lighting and worm’s-eye-views have become near-obsessions. As an art major at Goshen College years ago, the best advice I got there from a favorite professor was to “Play with it!”... sage advice which I still follow today. This may mean lying down in a ditch to see some brown-eyed Susans from below, and there’s the fun. My greatest joy in photography is its way of etching moments in my memory. That singular ray of light or fabulous color which would otherwise get forgotten becomes like an old friend when I process or view the image...