Jack Christfield
Photographer
Photography has been a serious avocation of Jack’s since high school. While in college he took advantage of photography classes that taught him about light, composition, darkroom technique and black & white printing.
His career in computer software consulting gave him the opportunity to travel extensively in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Africa where he photographed the people, landscape, culture and architecture in those places more for his own and his family’s enjoyment than with any thought of public display.
In 2007, his image Mountain, Clouds and Ice was awarded Best in Show at the Blue Ridge Fine Photography exhibition sponsored by the Transylvania County Arts Council. His work has been published in OUR STATE and in BLUE RIDGE COUNTRY magazines. He has exhibited at the Hollingsworth Gallery in Brevard, and is currently on exhibit at Bluewood Gallery in Brevard. His interests tend toward travel and landscapes, capturing the ‘good light’, and photographing people in the act of being themselves.
Learning the craft mostly through personal experience, darkroom work, and studying the images and techniques of other photographers, Jack finds that photography helps him to see the world in textures and colors that might have otherwise gone unnoticed. Photography helps us to see the details and the frozen moments of time that we would otherwise pass by. It triggers our memories, and sometimes emotions, and lets us pause to appreciate the light, the color and the aesthetics of a scene with a viewpoint we may not have discovered on our own.
Jack and his wife have lived in the Brevard area since 2003. He is an active member of the Land of Waterfalls camera club, and is glad to have more time to devote to photography now that he is retired from his ‘real’ job. He plans to continue to travel and to hone his photographic skills.
“Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gizmos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn’t make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel.” – Peter Adams