Capucines Boulevard Features Artist Lyndard Stroud

about the artist

Photography began as a hobby for me and became a passion. I've taken classes and completed workshops over the years. My work has been exhibited primarily in galleries in New Mexico.

I try to show the beauty of God's creation that surrounds us all that we miss in the midst of our busy and hectic lives. To me, photography is about light and how it transforms the ordinary into the magical. It is also about the art of seeing beyond the obvious.

artists' statement

I use a 35mm Nikon fixed focal length lens, wide-angle, 105 macro and a 300mm lens. I adapt the technique of the large-format camera to the smaller, lighter 35mm.

I am inspired primarily by Ansel Adams and Galen Rowel. My goal is to show my vision, my perception of the natural world and the transforming effect of light upon it.

I begin by walking and trying to see phtographs without the camera and will return later to the site, waiting for the light to transform the lanscape. I use the three different lenses to see the different images that present themselves.