Mike Brouphy

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Member Bio

Mike Brouphy, PSA Website Contest Director - Biography

I started in photography in 1981 to capture those special times in the lives of a family and children. During that time I also became proficient in black and white photography and darkroom printing. Beginning in 1984 I became actively involved in horsesport photography in addition to individual and family portraiture, wedding photography, and editorial photography for a variety of equine interest publications. I moved to Sarasota in 1993 from the Washington, DC area planning to continue my portrait and wedding photography and explore fine art photography as well for art show exhibition. I developed an affinity for infrared black and white photography as a medium to express and capture what I saw and wanted to photograph. There was a beauty out there in the world that we cannot see with our naked eyes. I marveled at the imagery that emerged from the developing tank. Here was a roll of film that had captured light we mortal humans cannot see. Grass was white or light gray instead of dark gray...skies were, most often, dark gray to almost black and bright areas had an ethereal bloom quality about them. I was hooked and have stayed hooked ever since. With support and encouragement I have learned and grown in my personal photography more than ever before. And, combining my other specialty, computing, I further progressed and explored the world of digital photographic manipulation through Adobe PhotoShop. I have learned and shared much in this new medium. Now as a member of PSA and an experienced art show exhibitor my photo art has grown to express a time now long past by exploring the beauty and mystique in old cars, old barns, and old houses. My partner in life and I have our work on these web sites, www.ImaginationStudio.com and www.NewOrleansPhotoArt.com will all become both a resource for a wide variety of information and a showplace for our art work for the world to view and enjoy.