About my Photography and Myself

Born in Hamburg Germany, I moved to the US in 1985 after a brief visit to California's San Francisco Bay Area. Although formally educated in the field of Engineering, I took up photography while studying at the Georgia Institute of Technology. On weekends I would escape the city and explore the many limestone caves found in the Southeast, or go rock climbing in the surrounding states – two of my favorite activities. Photography was a great means of recording my outdoor adventures.
  Spending a significant amount of time in the outdoors gives me the chance to observe landscapes in a way that most people do not see them – the varying qualities of light during a sunrise or the details within a simple composition. I try to capture these moments and images and share them with my photography.

I approach my photography with a lot of patience, dedication, and attention to detail. Using a 4x5 view camera, I place a lot of focus on each image rather than simply taking a host of snapshots; sometimes spending well over an hour on just one image - adjusting the composition and waiting for the right light. Although this approach might not produce large scores of photographs, it does produce an image that satisfies me and conveys as best as possible my interpretation of a particular scene.		  


While I enjoy photographing many different places, I have always been fascinated with the wide-open wilderness of the American West - the great mountain ranges, forests, and theunique desert landscapes. After living in the Southeast for 15 years, in 2004 I moved to the mountains of Colorado, where I currently reside.

Please look around. I hope you enjoy my images as much as I enjoy capturing them.

Evergreen, Colorado
August 2004

My Equipment

For those interested int the equipment I use, here is what I usually carry in my backpack.

* Ebony SV45TE Camera

* Nikkor SW 75mm f/4.5 lens
* Nikkor SW 90mm f/8.0 lens
* Nikkor W 210mm f/5.6 lens
* Rodenstock Sironar-S 150mm f/5.6 lens
* Fujion C 450mm f/12.5 lens

* Gossen Luna Pro Meter w/ 5-Degree Spot Attachment

* Silvestri 6x Loupe

* Polarizing Filter & Warm Polarizing Filter
* 81 Series Warming Filters
* 2 Stop Hard Edge & 3 Stop Soft Edge ND Filters
* Various Color Filters for Black and White

* Bogen/Manfrotto Tripod

* Fuji Velvia 50 & Provia 100F Color Transparency Film
* Kodak T-Max 100 Black and White Film

* Excessively many film holders!

  
     


Photographs on this site are the property of René Pirolt and are protected by U.S. copyright laws. Unauthorized use, reproduction, or downloading is prohibited.