Glenn Tamblingson
My name is Glenn Tamblingson. I have been blessed to discover the joy of photography. It has been an expression of the creativity that the Lord has gifted me with. Particularly I enjoy nature photography. I own Campaign Graphics and GraphicsPLUS. I do sales and administer my company operations. I started as an artist and designer and now have little time for that type of work. Photography has become a real love as it has given me an outlet of “instant gratification” artwork.
When I got the prints back, I was so excited to have gotten about 3 or 4 “great” shots out of the 2 rolls that I had shot! I wanted toknow how to have good images all the time! A friend knew someone who was going to a fall color workshop in Michigan and suggested that I look into it. The week long workshop was put on by John and Barb Gerlach of Gerlach Nature Photography. I enjoyed the fellowship and felt very intimidated by my lack of knowledge. There were pros that were along to add to their stock images, there were a couple of others like myself who were at the low end of the totem pole and others in between. I learned and absorbed everything that I could. Most importantly I learned how to meter light. They taught us on slide film which is truly WYSISYG (what you SHOOT is what you get) and is not forgiving at all. You must learn to meter or you get back garbage. Digital is really different, and I wonder if people are learning how to meter or just to rely on their LCD. I highly recommend to anyone a Gerlach workshop, or any other quality professional workshop. It was instrumental in my enjoyment of photography. When I returned, my wife told me about a county wide photo contest where we were in Ohio, and suggest that I enter. I was rushing out of town and picked a couple of images. I told her to pick out some more and to enter them for me. She did and I got “Best of Show” with one she picked out. That did it, I was hooked!
I find a purity, simplicity and a solemnity when I begin to work an image, especially when photographing flowers. I try to visualize the effect of depth of field, isolating a bloom, petal or leaf. I find it particularly rewarding when I the magic of a beautiful image presents itself, sometimes through planning and sometimes when the image just opens up. Either way, it takes time and patience to capture great images. After the 10 years or so that I have been actively shooting, I can say that I have been blessed by the Lord to have seen and captured so much of His creation. There is still so much more to shoot and so much more that I have to learn that it boggles my mind. I enjoy the passion of the hunt of the image, and then the capture of it too! It is nice to win awards, but if no one ever saw another of my images, I would still be photographing. I shoot because of the enjoyment of the beauty I see and because of the creative satisfaction that I receive from photography. I hope that everyone can find as much or even a fraction of what I get out of photography. If you can, you won’t be able to stop either. 
Glenn shoots with digital (Nikon D200 and D100) and a variety of film cameras, including Nikon F5 (35mm) Mamyia 645 Super (120/220 mm) and Fuji GX617 (Panoramic). For more information or to view Glenn’s website, please go to www.gktphotos.com or email him at glenn@gktphotos.com |
I have always enjoyed photography, but didn’t really discover my real love for it until I “got lucky” in the early summer of 1997. I had taken my Pentax ME Super to a county park early one morning while traveling back and forth between Ohio and Florida. Photographically speaking. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I was trying. I was shooting with print film so I had to wait to see what I had shot. Digital was just beginning to be on the market and 3 megapixel SLR cameras were still nearly 2 years away.
When I started, I didn’t have “fast” lenses or very good equipment. I used what I had and shot “within myself” meaning that I found how to shoot well with what I had. I got some extension tubes and got interested in close up work. I also enjoyed landscape photography, which doesn’t require long or fast lenses. I enjoy being behind the camera, looking thru the viewfinder. It allows me to see the world in a very personal way, and it takes the distractions of the fast paced life we live today and makes them vanish. I have to slow down – it is very peaceful.