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Seattle area guest photographer and artist Gordon Leckenby has been working with digital images and Olympus cameras for the past several years. He added the Olympus E-10 and numerous accessories to his artist's toolbox in December, 2000.

Gordon was born in the early thirties, and raised in the Seattle suburbs, where growing up in the country instilled a sense of wonder at the varity of nature. Although untrained in any formal sense, he painted and photographed from an early age - he was allways interested in the "graphic image". From his late twenties on, he had the opportunity to associate, and work with many contempory artists. Imagists of the past that Gordon holds in admiration include; Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Hieronymus Bosch, Maxfield Parish, Max Escher, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani and Ben Schaun.

A quote from Gordon: "Artists live 'This is it! I've got to get it down' on canvas, paper, stone, whatever. Working to capture the interplay of changing light and form. We've worked with the technology at hand, looking for different materials, different tools, different means of expressing the abstract truth. The camera in adding to this did not supplant the older methods. Rather it made more accessable the capturing of the form of content. So it is with the computer, its software and accessories are just one more adjunct in the contempory artists palette."

In general, the shots presented here were taken during February 2001 in the suburbs of Seattle. Gordon's commentaries are included.

February Sunset: 1/200 sec, F7.1, ISO 160, fl=200mm. The light was metered in center weighted averaging mode. I meter on the light values of the sky for this kind of work. This shot was taken from near Arbor Heights in Southwest Seattle.

"Mountain Rill" taken in January 2001 is near the Dosewallups river in the Olympic mountain range: 1/160 sec, F2.4, ISO 160, fl=140mm

Five Gulls: 1/200 sec, F5.6, ISO 320, fl=140mm. This was a clear case of getting better light values in the mid-ground across the water to Vashon Island to silouette the birds against. This image was captured at the Seahurst Park in Burien.

Mt Rainier, 60 miles distant: 1/640 sec, F10, ISO 80, fl=200mm. This image is composed of two handheld shots that were stiched together with Camedia 2.5. This image was taken from atop Fenwick Park, off of Reith Road in Kent.

Windbreak: 1/640 sec, F6.3, ISO 80, fl=140mm. This image was desaturated of color to nearly 10% in PhotoShop. This is a technique that I enjoy using producing "near" B/W images. The image is from Golden Gardens Park in North Seattle.

2-22 Sunset Pan of the Kitsap and the Olympics: 1/200sec. F7.1, ISO 160, fl=200mm. This panorama is composed of two hand held shots stiched together with Camedia 2.5. This image was also taken from near Arbor Heights metered for the pink lights in the clouds.

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