About Jack Chamberlin

I’m essentially a landscape photographer with several and important exceptions; the greatest majority of my landscapes are black & white and captured through a near infrared filter built into my camera; secondly, I have a penchant for utilizing Photoshop to take pieces of my photographs from the original images and compositing them into other images to produce original surrealistic works that are for sale as well. Although they could perhaps comprise a page in the Odd Couple’s bible, the inspiration for my photography and composite work come from Ansel Adams and Salvador Dali, as well as Marcel Duchamp and Galen Rowell. As an added bonus for you gardeners and flower lovers, I have a number of (Macro) images for sale of flowers and their pollinators that are unique and visually stunning in my “Flowers and Friends” gallery.

Although my fascination with surreal imagery precedes my interest in photography as a medium for creative expression, my interest in photography precedes the digital age. I’ve spent my time in the dark room, but no more….all of the images for sale on my website were captured with a Canon DSLR camera. The black & white images were captured with a Canon 5Ds converted for infrared (830nm for those familiar with the infrared light spectrum). The color landscape images, of which there are many to choose from for sale were captured with my unconverted Canon 5Ds. The fact that my images were captured with a Canon 5Ds is good for you as well; the 5Ds sports a 50.6-megapixel digital sensor, which means that the native image captured by the camera is very large (8688 X 5792 pixels). Why is this good? The large print that you buy will be sharp, clear and detailed, because enlarging the native image to a larger size will degrade the resolution much less when the starting size is closer to the finished size in total pixels.

The vast majority of my images were captured in California, New Mexico, Southern Utah, Arizona and Colorado. I currently live in San Diego, California, but I grew up West Denver in the shadow of the magnificent Colorado Rockies. I spent my youth hiking, camping and skiing in the Colorado mountains, which left me with a deep and abiding love and appreciation for the Outback in general, and the mountains in particular. I left my home in colorful Colorado in 1968 to join the U.S. Navy in San Diego. During my four years in the Navy, I fell in love with the Pacific Ocean, and with the world’s finest weather in San Diego. Despite my love affair with the Colorado Rockies, my second love/s have hopelessly captured me, and I still live in San Diego today.