Burns Woodward

My dad, an enthusiastic shutterbug, guided me to my first camera, a 35 mm Pentax viewfinder I bought in Hong Kong. In my mid-twenties I immersed myself in Ansel Adams’s books on exposure, development, and printing, shot a lot of black-and-whites, and spent hours in the darkroom. When our kids got older I joined the Newton Camera Club and learned about composing 35mm slide images. In the last few years I’ve been studying nature and conservation photography, taking workshops, and analyzing paintings to understand how pictures work. My most important discovery is the immense value of  time in the field trying things followed by poring over the results back home. 

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My ongoing project is depicting scenes where nature and people respond to each other. I prowl around on foot or in my canoe, looking for good light and a composition that grabs me.

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I usually carry my old Nikon DSLR for wide angle shots and a newer Canon mirrorless for telephotos and closeups. A monopod provides a modicum of stability for most images. My editing is done in Lightroom.