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Nature's Nobility in Fine Art Images "We've seen thousands of photographs of Big
Sur,
"I try to show the magical majesty
-David Dilworth |
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Home | Gallery 1 | Gallery 2 | Purchase | News 831 / 624-6500 – P.O. Box 1495, Carmel, California 93921 |
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As a professional environmental science consultant, David has helped dozens of environmental groups achieve more than eight hundred environmental successes since 1992. He has helped protect thousands of acres of imperiled forests, wild lands, their watercourses and their wildlife; taught hundreds of people about Monterey pine forest ecosystems on walks in the native forests; written adopted world class laws for water conservation and silence protection, and written several, and model environmental and democracy protection policy elements. After growing up in Pacific Grove, and describing himself as merely
an "appreciator"
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All images in this exhibition are available as museum quality photographic prints using Fujicolor Crystal Archive Type One Paper (silver-halide color prints). (None are printed as "Giclee" a $25 word merely meaning "ink jet". |
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I get to see a lot of spectacular natural beauty that no other human does. I try to capture those visions for appreciators. Ansel Adams said "You don't take a photograph, you make it." On this point I respectfully have a different philosophy. I do not "make" photographs, I try to show what the actual landscape looked like at the moment I was there. The only thing I impose is the place and time the image was taken. All images are as close as I can get them to the true natural light reflected or emitted by the real natural phenomena at the moment it was photographed. Only one image (the Tiger Lily) employs artificial lighting (flash). Every camera makes some errors in capturing a vision. I do not adjust my images by an amount larger than the errors introduced by the camera. |
While most of my images are not modified at all, some images may be adjusted slightly for exposure, contrast, sharpness, color correction or color balance, but only the minimum necessary for accurate and clear reproduction. A very few may have had noise reduced, or dust removed. However, none of my images are modified in any way with Photoshop. None are dodged or burned or contain parts of any other image or have anything removed; few are even cropped. Almost all of these images inspire (if I do say so myself) and are sharp and silky smooth and when printed at 2 feet by 3 feet, 4 feet by 6 feet. Some are acceptable at wall mural sizes. |
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Museum of Photographic Arts – San Diego Center for Photographic Art – Carmel Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York |
Friends’ Fine Art websites Painting -- Sculpture -- |
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Vienna Merritt-Moore who persuaded me that other people might like my photographs as well, and insisted I enter photographic competitions, Sarah Joplin who advised me to put my images on the web, Morley Baer who shared my love of magnificent vistas, and most of all -- Joel J. Dilworth my father, who, when I was young, convinced me that I could do anything I really wanted. My deepest thanks. -David |
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