An amateur photographer since age 14, John Lind started with his parents' old Kodak 620 size folding camera and a garage darkroom making contact prints from black and white film with help from his father. His current "day job" is Project Engineering with a large automotive electronics firm in the U.S. midwest.In his spare time John photographs a wide range of subjects including architecturals, landscapes, special events, and macros of flowers. The tools for his craft have grown over the years to include a variety of 35mm rangefinders, 35mm SLRs, and a medium format SLR. John uses a fundamental approach with three guiding principles in creating his images:
- Photography is light and the entire light path from it's sources to the film. It's the medium with which a photographer works. The combination of camera body, film and lens do nothing more than record light.
- A photographer "makes" instead of "takes" photographs. This is a creative process that first visualizes the finished photograph mentally, and then works to create it.
- Image composition is a subtractive process that begins with reality in its entirety and removes from it all elements that do not enhance or contribute to the image's message about the subject material.
John is currently exhibiting large prints of his work in regional art and photography shows, and maintains a web site that includes tutorials about the art and science of photography.
