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WESTMINSTER by N SUKUMAR
N Sukumar
N SukumarI am a scientist, photographer, conservationist, wilderness enthusiast and educator. I was born in Calcutta, India, obtained my Ph.D. in chemisty from Stony Brook, New York, and have worked in the US, India and Germany. I now reside in upstate New York. While I have been photographing since my teenage years, I have been taking photography more seriously for the past decade, through self-study, experimentation and workshops with eminent photographers.
I count myself fortunate to have studied/worked with Karin Rosenthal, Ernestine Ruben, Connie Imboden, Elizabeth Opalenik, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Carl Heilmann II, Helen Longest-Saccone, George Lepp, Steve Traudt and Alan Lowy.
I am past-president and currently chair of the fine arts group at the Schenectady Photographic Society, as well as its webmaster. I have exhibited at several local galleries, won a few awards and have had a couple of images published in art magazines. My work and wanderlust have taken me to the far corners of the world and I have made use of the opportunities this provided for photography.
My main photographic subjects are nature/landscape and figure, my approach to the two being somewhat similar.I enjoy both wet and digital darkroom work. I still use my first SLR camera, a manual focus Canon AE-1P, for figure work. I bought a Canon Digital Rebel EOS XTi a few months ago, which I now use for landscape and nature photography. A sturdy tripod, a portable reflector and several lenses and filters go with me almost everywhere, but otherwise I'm rather minimalistic in regard to equipment.
I use Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Elements 2.0, JASC PaintShopPro, Genuine Fractals, Andrea Mosaic and Photodex Presenter on a Dell Dimension desktop PC running Win2000 with 512 MB RAM, 40 GB + 20 GB hard disks, 19" monitor, built-in ZIP drive and CD burner, connected to a flatbed+slide+negative scanner and an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 printer.
PSA EID study group 8 Admin.and Webmaster, PSA Nature Division
