John Nakamura

I have been photographing various subjects since childhood, but became a serious amateur in 1982 with the purchase of a Canon A-1 35mm camera. Over the next few years I went through the usual process of acquiring equiptment in order to explore the various ways in which the medium could portray what I saw around me. I found landscape and city subjects particularly appealing, but also have experience with macrophotography, duplication, and projected image manipulation. During that same period I taught myself B&W darkroom practice and was employed as a special effects artist animating TV commercials and entertainment programming. In 2001 I began using digital equiptment, primarily a 4.1 megapixel Sony DSC-S85. At that time I also began exploring digital photo processing using film and flatbed scanners and Adobe Photoshop and MS Picture It software in a Windows environment. My background includes a BA degree in Fine Arts, 12 years experience in the commercial film industry, and 13 years in the preparation, reproduction, and presentation of natural history specimens. I have been a retail display technician, a ceramist, a stop-motion animator, a prop fabricator, a special effects rigger, a mold-maker, a fossil preparator, and an exhibit craftsman. I am also an aspiring writer and a collector of insects, shells, fossils, coins, and stamps. If there are any pervasive themes, they include creativity, eclectic interests, and an unconventional attitude. I live in NYC and haven't felt the need to participate in the expense and aggrivation of owning a car in over 20 years. I cook most of my own food in a city full of restaurants, and am a non-drinker who once built and tested a still. Prices listed are for personal downloads of images for non-commercial use. Those with a commercial interst should contact me initially by email at jn401160@aol.com for discussion of usage, copyright assignment for reproduction, and commercial pricing.