Arzed is Rick Zehner.

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I am a geologist who started out in photography with a 1940's Ciroflex camera and a black & white darkroom. I moved on to single- reflex cameras and 8mm and Super 8mm with a passion for filming water ripples with different color filters and lap dissolving them together. Once I learned GIS, I began experimenting with modifying pixel images of photographs to form 'augmented imagery', a sort of competition between digital and analog.

Photographs tell a story, but part of my passion is tweaking the images to induce a double-take...a "what was that?" kind of thing.

 

But I also hope you'll notice that many of the images evoke comfort and restfulness.

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