Dick Carr – Three Stix Photos
A New Englander raised on the Connecticut shoreline, I started taking photos in the saltwater marshes when my parents gave me a Canon SLR for my 21st birthday. I carried a camera with me throughout my career(s) as a minerals exploration geologist and reclamation specialist, but until recently never had time to really explore the passion. Most of my work-related photography over the years has been to document. Now and then I would come across a subject or a detail that I wanted to capture and bring to the forefront. Light and texture draw my attention the most – as with anyone with the photography “bug…”
I moved to Reno in 1989 with my wife and two daughters, having lived and worked in Alaska, New England, the southeastern US and Egypt. Since then, I have spent much of my time working in either the Mojave desert region of southern California or the high sagebrush deserts of western Wyoming, with a stint in the upland savannah jungle region of eastern Bolivia as well. As we used to camp every year in Death Valley for President’s Day weekend, I grew to appreciate the eastern Sierra front and the basin and range transition region of Nevada, Death Valley and the southwestern deserts. I still try to get out for wildflower season in the early spring.
Having spent a career in the outdoors, I am evermore convinced that the beauty found in the creation reflects the glory of the Creator. My hope is that others will see this also reflected in my photographs.
Dick Carr (R.S. Carr, III) – Three Stix Photos