Jay Pierstorff

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I started my love of photography early. My father was an avid camera bug, and it didn't take me long to learn my way around a shutter release. In high school my first experience with darkroom photo printing processes seemed like magic and I was hooked!

After art classes at American River College in Northern California, I studied photography under the late Glen Fishback in Sacramento. I worked as a Professional Photographer for the next 20 years, learning all I could about cameras, lenses, black and white, color processing, studio lighting, commercial, aerial, portrait and wedding photography. I learned negative retouching at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

Only a few short years ago, film has been replaced by digital sensors. Computers with powerful graphics programs have taken over for the old chemical-laden darkrooms. It is a new digital world for photographers! I for one, couldn't be happier! These new tools allow limitless photographic creativity!

Building on my traditional photographic experience, I enjoy creating images that twist or move the light into new realms. Computers can create "impossible" new lenses. Colors can change properties at the wave of a hand. Infrared light can reveal entirely new worlds through modified optics. These tools influence my photos of the Southwestern United States.

I hope you enjoy my images. Thanks for visiting!
Sincerely,
Jay Pierstorff

Jay's photos can be ordered from this website or visit the

Affairs of the Art Gallery in Tucson, at 2740 S Kinney Road, Suite 3, Tucson, AZ 85735.