The Photography of Michael LeBlanc
I have been enjoying photography for longer than my adult life. Through it I have learned to see so much more of the world before me. At first I did not understand that my view of the world was, in anyway, different than the average person on the street. But over the years I have come to realize that I "see" in ways that most others don't. The joy of showing someone a group of pictures from a place they feel they know intimately and yet having them rejoice in the experience of seeing it for the first time ....again. Turning the mundane into something fresh and yet familiar. To hopefully help people look at their everyday world and find it fresh again, with new insights and perspectives.
This is the joy that photography brings into my life.
This is the joy that photography brings into my life.
The man behind the camera
My name is Michael and I am currently living in the greater Boston area. By trade, I am an Electrical Engineer but I started behind the camera as a young kid. I graduated from dad's old range finders and SLRs cameras to a SLR of my own early in my high school days.
I worked my way through college in Florida, in a camera store. This was a great experience in many respects. Having access to a lot of interesting equipment and talking with customers about the problems they were encountering and how to understand and resolve their issues was a great insight into the technical side of photography.
I still enjoy helping people understand and resolve issues with there photos. Now in the era of the "All digital workflow", for most people that means, what "Photoshop Tricks" do I need to fix this. I will confess, I am much more of an "in camera" kind of photographer than a "10 finger computer pixel pusher". I do use some computer time in my work, but it is the exception rather than the rule. For me the joy of photography is the time spent with my face pressed against the viewfinder. As an Electrical Engineer, I spend 50 hours or more a week in front of a computer, do I really want to spend any more than necessary of my off work hours there too?
I have, and do sell prints of my work, but I most definitely refer to my self as an "amateur" photographer. After all, the root of the word amateur is "Amore", the Latin for "Love".
Michael
I worked my way through college in Florida, in a camera store. This was a great experience in many respects. Having access to a lot of interesting equipment and talking with customers about the problems they were encountering and how to understand and resolve their issues was a great insight into the technical side of photography.
I still enjoy helping people understand and resolve issues with there photos. Now in the era of the "All digital workflow", for most people that means, what "Photoshop Tricks" do I need to fix this. I will confess, I am much more of an "in camera" kind of photographer than a "10 finger computer pixel pusher". I do use some computer time in my work, but it is the exception rather than the rule. For me the joy of photography is the time spent with my face pressed against the viewfinder. As an Electrical Engineer, I spend 50 hours or more a week in front of a computer, do I really want to spend any more than necessary of my off work hours there too?
I have, and do sell prints of my work, but I most definitely refer to my self as an "amateur" photographer. After all, the root of the word amateur is "Amore", the Latin for "Love".
Michael