David Bentley

I enjoy architectural, landscape and garden photography, but my real interest is finding design elements in the natural, manufactured and found, random combinations of objects and to explore the intellectual and psychological effects of design. I sometimes alter these arrangements. Digital photography allows me to manipulate the resulting images, in ways unavailable to film photography, to better express the concept behind these images.

Caught photography bug at age 11; Columbus College of Art and Design, 2 years – Graphic Design major; Ohio University 64-- BFA Art Ed; H.S. Art teacher; M.Ed. Educational Communications, University of Pittsburgh. Although photography was a large part of most of his employment, he considers himself a semi-pro, since it was never the major duty. He retired in 1999, at 63, to paint, when he discovered the flexibility of digital photography. He has been exhibiting in local juried shows and has had one one-man show and been the Featured Artist in another. He is currently waiting for the publication of a book on a local glass manufacturer, for which he produced over one hundred Photographs.