David Devitt, Photographer
My interest in photography began when I was a kid with an old Kodak box camera. My hobby grew with me, and when I was in my late 20s I had a 4X5 camera and a darkroom. I grew up in Colorado, so I had plenty of opportunity to roam the mountains with my backpack and camera. In the early 2000s I was making contact prints with an 8x10 view camera, an old Kodak No. D-2.
In the late 1990s I got my first digital SLR. I now shoot with a 45 MP Canon. I am now doing some birding, looking for landscapes and doing some portraiture. I also like to experiment with different techniques involving macro photography and other fabulous tricks that my present camera can do. I have made videos of Great Blue Herons and their chicks, slow-motion videos of bees, and focus-stacked pictures of very small things, like this dead spider. This image is a composite of 30 images, each with their own focal plane, merged into one image using the sharpest part of each one.
Photo by Steef Sealy