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Lugging a 4 x 5 SpeedGraphic camera around as a reporter / photographer for her college newspaper was a bracing, stimulating introduction to photography for Mary Frische. She learned that getting good images can be hard physical work; but she also quickly realized the power and the potential of the medium
Throughout a career as a sculptor, pastel painter and counselor, she has continued utilising the photographic medium; the only thing that has changed is the equipment. That old SpeedGraphic is in a museum somewhere, the darkroom is a computer screen, and the cameras are lighter and better; but the medium remains powerful and meaningful. |
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For Tom Collopy, the passion for nature photography started when he dropped his fathers Kodak folding-box camera into a lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The images of moose, bears and wolves that he assumed he could share were gone. Forty years later, Tom is still working at capturing and saving images depicting the amazing diversity of the natural world.
Tom and Mary began working together as photographers in the early 1990s. They share a common goal: to capture the beauty of the world that surrounds us and to encourage people to preserve that beauty. |
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