Don Browning-about My photographic journey started in the red glow of the safelight, viewing an emerging print in a small black a white darkroom tucked under the basement staircase in our country home in mid '50s Hickman Mills, Missouri. Under the direction of my great uncle Mr. Clarence B. Cardy, photographic studies opened a new way of seeing for a young boy. Circa summer 1953, in a rural setting outside Kansas City, Missouri, the great "Photon Chase" began.
1959 brought US Navy Service and extended photographic opportunity in Japan. Traveling a long trail of images from Japan, Korea and China in the east, Scotland and England in the west, and the US in between, I have pursued a life of visual joy. My work has been published, collected and exhibited, and is included in major private, municipal, and corporate collections Over two years of duty near Tokyo, and Asian travel created photographic opportunities that would have a lasting Asian influence in my work. Formal Studies at Central Missouri State University grounded my fundamentals, leading to a design and graphics career in Central Florida. 4x5 Zone System Landscape work, Sport Aviation, and Wildlife photography / journalism lead me to my 2004 Wading Bird Exhibit “Splendor in the Grass". The Splendor Exhibit was the photographic result of a multi-year successful Wading Bird Rookery Rescue effort at Sunset Harbor on Lake Weir in Marion County Florida. |
