Big Shot 14
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
New York, New York
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Sponsor and Primary Lighting Architect
October 28, 1999, 47° F
Camera: Sinar F 4x5 with 65mm lens
Exposure: 2 minutes @ f/11
Film: Kodak Porta 400 MC
All external lighting was provided by multiple hand-held electronic flash units operated by approximately 1,200 people.
about this photo
recognition
Chuck Westfall Technical Education Award
Recipient of the 2nd Annual Chuck Westfall Technical Education Award 2019
Presented at the 5th Annual Lucie Technical Awards, an initiative of the
Lucie Foundation and sister program of the Lucie Awards. This distinguished
honor is awarded to an influential voice in the photographic industry who
displays an extraordinary commitment and love for the art and technology of
photography. It is named in the honor of Chuck Westfall, a longtime Canon
employee who became known as the “teacher of technology” to journalists and
the photo industry in general.
Patents
TRIPOD HEAD WITH FOLDING HANDLE
U.S Patent No. US 8,366,062. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
MULTI-AXIS PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIPOD HEADS
U.S Patent No. US 8,418,973. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
in-action | induro 5-way tripod panhead
(Product Designer, also scripted and featured in video) 2:21
Select Scholarship
Adobe Educational Summit | Co-creator
Adobe Educational Summit – Program Co-Creator and Producer 2008 - 2020
With Julieanne Kost of Adobe, San Jose, CA
sva, nyc | Invited lecturer
Invited Lecturer – MPS Digital Photography, New Technologies
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
the smithsonian institution | invited lecturer
Invited Lecturer – The Smithsonian Institution Photo Departments
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
sPE | Invited Presenter
Invited Presenter, Society of Photographic Education Industry & Education Forum, 52nd-57th SPE National Conferences, Multiple Locations
special olympics | educator/mentor
Educator/Mentor Support for RIT Photography Students at the Rochester Special Olympics, Floreano Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, NY
rochester museum & science center | guest
Invited Guest for Gambit - KH7 Reconnaissance Satellite Declassification & Dedication, Rochester Museum & Science Center Planetarium, Rochester, NY
flower city art youth program | organizer
Organized and coordinated PhotoScience Workshop for Flower City Art Youth Program students, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
images of science 3 | invited organizer
Invited Organizer “Images of Science 3” Exhibit Opening
John Hopkins, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Select exhibits
faculty exhibitions
Photographs displayed in 2015-2019 Faculty Exhibition for CAD (Formerly CIAS)
Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
traveling exhibition
Photographs displayed in traveling exhibit of Ellis Island Art (La Porta Dell’America), Ferrara, Codigoro, Mesola and Migliarino, Italy
ellis island immigration museum
Photographs displayed at opening of Ellis Island Gallery
Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York, NY
appointments
Technology committee
Appointed to the George Eastman Museum (GEM) Technology Acquisition Committee
Rochester, NY
2018
ansi standards tc110 group
Appointed Expert within the ANSI Standards TC110 Group for Electronic Displays
Washington, DC
2018
zoning board
Appointed by Village Mayor as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals Honeoye Falls, NY
2018
