About Richard and This Site

This site is a virtual gallery showing 202 of my best photographs. I have an active account on flickr with many more photographs as well as a weblog where I discuss photography among other things.

I love photography: working with a camera to make images and sharing those images on the web and in print. I also love story-telling and I've tried to give my images context by providing captions that hopefully will inform and entertain.

I have a BFA and an MFA in fine and applied arts from the University of Oregon where I studied ceramics, design, and photography and taught ceramics, basic design, and computer applications for artists.

In the late 1970's, after personally discovering the power of computers to aid in writing and learning, I became a pioneer in advocating their use, especially for children with language learning problems. My career as a professional artist and art educator was put on hold for twenty years while I spread the word on technology in education. In the process, I joined advisory boards of numerous companies including Apple Computer, Inc. and AlphaSmart, Inc.

My current photographic work is the beginning of my re-entry into the art and photography world.

Tips on Using this Site

Home: takes you to the first or latest image on the site. Click directly on any image to go to the previous image in the collection. Move forward and backward through the images serially with the arrows surrounding the Gallery link at the bottom right-hand corner of each image page.

The Gallery link at the top of the site will take you back to a view of all categories and four example images (which change each time you return). Gallery: A thumbnail array of all categories with four example images (which change each time you return). There are category filters on top. Click a category to see all images in that category. Click a thumbnail to go to that image's full size page. To return to a full Gallery view, click Gallery on the top navigation bar.

About: Where you are now. About this site and help with purchasing images.

RSS: If you'd like to track this site with a newsreader here's the RSS 2.0 feed and the ATOM feed. Click either to add this site's feed to your newsreader. Don't know what RSS is? Read more about it here.

Tools

I use a Canon 5D digital SLR. I've grown fond of shallow depth of field and low light photography and because of this I've assembled a collection of fast prime (fixed focal length) lenses.

Images are organized and edited with iPhoto or Aperture.

This site is powered by PixelPost, an open-source content management system.

The site's templates were built by me on a Macintosh computer running OS X with TextMate.

Affiliations

VFXY Photos syndication community.

Licensing

I'm happy to license any image at this site for limited use by photo agencies or graphic design firms. Get in touch with me (below) to discuss terms.

Copyright

Images © Richard Wanderman (all rights reserved)

Photographs that appear on this site may not be copied, reproduced or manipulated without the written permission of Richard Wanderman.

Contact

If you've got questions or general comment or feedback about this site, feel free to send them to me at: rwanderman at gmail dot com.

Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank Karin and Brad Smith who pushed me to put some time into learning about the printing process and a special thank you to Karin who's beautiful notecards inspired me to give them a try.

A big thank you goes to Jamie Adams for telling me about PixelPost and to David Clark for hosting and for helping me customize it. Thanks to my old friend Anne Meyer for the category and gallery navigation button suggestion.

Aaron Johnston and Janel Obenchain, two fine photographers and friends got their photo sites up first and seeing their spectacular photographs in this format pushed me to build this site.

One of my favorite photographers remains Sam Javanrouh who inspires me with wonderful photographs every day.

One of my first flickr contacts and still one of my favorite photographers on flickr is rosemary* who is the queen of shallow depth of field photography and who has been an inspiration. Carlos Camacho is another of my close flickr contacts and both his images of objects and of his children have been inspiring.

Gary Sharp, Dale Allyn, and Mamen Saura have been my closest supporters and teachers in my re-emergence into the art world.