Photography - "writing with light"

I have been producing award-winning photographic images since 1962. You have seen my work in countless newspapers and publications nationwide including The New York Times and The Congressional Record. My fine art photographs have hung in the Antigo Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery and the Wisconsin Visual Artists Guild (WVAG) Gallery.

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One of my greatest pleasures is to apply the techniques of great painters to photographs.
If it looks like a painting . . . It’s a photograph.
If it looks like a watercolor . . . It’s a phototograph.
If it looks like a pencil sketch . . . It’s a photograph.
I am flattered if you mistake my photograph for a painting. But . . . All of my art begins with a camera.

As a photographer, I have always envied painters. They are able to paint what they envision. I, on the other hand, have always been limited by what my lens sees. The trees, the sky, the grass, the light playing off the water, the utility pole. The artist could choose to ignore the utility pole. I couldn't. Today's digital darkroom lets me include not just what I see, but what I would like to see in my photographs. Like the painter, I can use my imagination. Life is good.  -  Jim Martinsen.  email me "You don't take a photograph, you make it."  -  Ansel Adams