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THOMAS WELLS PHOTOGRAPHY

Great Britain 2009

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I got my first camera when I was about 10, but I really didn't get serious about photography until I was in high school. Over the past 40 odd years I have taken tens of thousands of photos. Most of these were taken in and around the rolling hills and forests of central Connecticut, which I have always called home. I enjoy the natural world and spend time hiking and sailing. I also have a passion for travel, which I seem do far too seldom. It seems natural to bring a camera along and try to capture that which inspires and find a way to convey that inspiration to others in the form of a printed photograph. I have never had any formal training in photography or the arts. I learned what I know about art and composition by looking at pictures and deciding why some work, and why others don’t. Subjects that interest me are the natural, light, water, the old, and the ancient, rather than the glitz of modern society. My favorite times to take photographs are the hours around dawn and dusk, when light often takes on an otherworldly character. I look for the dramatic, the sublime, and the surreal.