Thursday, May 6, 7:30 PM

Our program speaker for May is Charles Bowers, a former Silver Spring Camera Club member who was with the Club for over 40 years before recently retiring. 

As a professional landscape architect specializing in residential gardens, Charles’ interest in photography and alternative image processes grew from a desire to create art beyond designing and building extraordinary gardens.  Charles’ interest in design and natural colors, patterns, shapes and textures have always influenced his art and photography. His gravitation towards alternative processes are primarily influenced by asking himself, “Where else can I take this image?”  His photography and art work is a melding of both passions.

Charles carried over many of the alternative processes he used in the darkroom into the world of digital image photography. The digital realm also allowed him to expand this exploration into digital painting, digital texturing, and collaging. The results are printed or transferred onto canvas, wood, watercolor paper, and other state of the art archival-pigmented inks. Charles’ extensive body of work includes people and their relationship to their environment, architecture, landscapes, gardens, flowers, and the natural world in its’ many forms. Over the years, his art work has appeared in many one-person and numerous group exhibitions, as well as being featured in national and international magazines. 

During the presentation, Charles will talk about his photographic journey and the alternative processes he uses to create his art.

Find out more about Charles Bowers and his art at: www.cwbowers.com