Who is Waldo Wiley and why should you buy one of his photographs?

These WWW images are an attempt to capture the natural world around us and transport the viewer into the world of the photo. A documentary approach to the subjects has been employed to preserve the versimilitude of a scene. Images have not been manipulated to create scenes that never existed. Only color corrections have been made to recreate the reality of the light on the landscape at the time the original exposure was taken.

Actually there is no Waldo Wiley. He has won no awards, has studied with no one famous, and does not have a list of gallery exhibits as long as his arm. But as you can see from the photographs included on this site, Kent Wiley does have a keen sense of photographic composition.

Kent Wiley was born an only child in South America. As a child of military parents he moved constantly as a youth, his camera always beside him to document the blur of scenery. Tragedy beset the small family frequently. To compensate Kent looked away from the lives of people, and recorded images of the land. At times the family was forced to hide from oppressive regimes. There was no returning to the north, so they had to find a way to survive by their wits and their cunning. Photography became a luxury that young Kent could no longer indulge in. His parents were lost in a tropical storm that destoryed hundreds of miles of coastline in the vicinity of their home base. Kent survived by being elsewhere at the time, visiting with distant relations in the interior. Cut loose from any family bonds, Kent relocated at age seventeen from the jungles of the southern hemisphere to those of Florida. He was once again able to record on film the scenes of the land around him, watching the light change, often waiting days to capture the right moment.

Some interesting places to visit.

My new website devoted to the environmental impact of humans:
Manmadewilderness.com

Landscape photography that dares to be different:
The Landscapist

Freeform radio, completely listener supported:
wfmu.org

Photo education & critique:
photo.net

Digital dark room, printing techniques, technical esoterica, and beautiful photography:
normankoren.com

Great landscape photography:
Alan Eckert's photo website

More great landscape photos:
Jeff Hackett's photography website
also available at: alamy.com

More Bermuda photos:
Kent Wiley's Bermuda site

Sunrise/sunset tables for anywhere on the planet:
US Naval Observatory

Topographic maps of the United States and much more geographic info:
usgs.gov

Liz Castro's html coding site associated with her simple and helpful books:
HTML 5.0 Quick Start

An Umbrella for All Nonreligious:
A Bright is an individual whose worldview is naturalistic - free of the supernatural.

James Randi Educational Foundation:
The JREF is a non-profit learning resource aimed at promoting critical thinking everywhere.

Bill Thayer's massive site on Roman antiquity & much much more
Ancient Rome

Michael Greenhalgh's art history site of Roman art and architecture as embodied by Piazza del Popolo:
Popolo Project