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/Ted Van Horn
Ted grew up in the Pacific Northwest just up the road from the Lummi Indian reservation, which lies on the Nooksack river at Marietta Washington. As a young man he roamed the fields and forests of the family farm where he learned to love the out of doors and the beauty he found there. As a child he was given a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for a birthday and he began to discover the wonder and joy of capturing on film all that he saw. While attending school at Washington State College (now University) in Pullman, Washington, his roommate introduced him to the wonders of 35mm photography using an Argus C3 camera. He now had control over the technical quality of the photographs he was making.
Fortunately, he was apprenticed to a master landscape photographer who taught him the many technical facets of the art of photography and printing high quality images in the black and white darkroom.
A few years later he expressed to a friend that “some day I would like to have my own studio.” Through the instrumentality of this friend he was put in contact with an elderly photographer who wanted to sell his studio and retire. As they say “the rest is history.”
After several years of operating the studio, he was asked to film boats being produced by a local company. This required the rental of 16mm motion picture equipment and learning how to use it. Thus began a love affair with film production. There was an eventual move to Provo, Utah and a position as cameraman at the BYU motion picture studio. Over the next eight years he worked on nearly 100 films. Several won awards for excellence, including the Golden Cine award for “Cipher in the Snow.”
After a three-year sojourn in California, Ted moved back to Bellingham Washington. There he built and operated a photo lab where he processed and printed customers film and produced high quality custom enlargements.
As a natural outgrowth of the lab business, he was well positioned to catch the wave of the computer revolution and it’s subsequent inroads in to image processing. As digital imaging has grown to the point of overtaking conventional photography, Ted has been on the leading edge. He now photographs using Nikon digital cameras exclusively and digitally scans older films for printing digitally. “You now have nearly infinite control of your image quality.”
“You can optimize your image for any kind of use, be it display prints,
4-color offset printing, the internet, etc. replication of digital files is totally lossless, from generation to generation.”
Throughout his career, Ted has traveled extensively, including Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America, the South Pacific, and most of the United States, including Hawaii. He has taught university level photography classes in California and Utah.
Over the last two years, Ted has made numerous trips out to the west desert to photograph herds of wild horses, capturing the wild and free spirit of these beautiful animals. He also travels the western United States in search of beautiful images. He markets his works to interior designers and decorators and produces large canvas Giclee´ prints for homes and office suites.
Because of the experience and expertise he has gained producing his own prints for sale, he also makes high quality Giclee´ prints for other photographers and artists.
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