ABOUT NEIL RALLEY
Thumbnails are of photos by Neil Ralley - used with permission
Copyright 2004 Neil Ralley All rights reserved
I am a native Brit who for over 20 years pursued
a career in Human Resources, initially domestic UK work and then
progressively more international. In 1996 I had the good fortune to
marry an American and one of us had to move in order to shorten a
3500 mile commute and it made sense for it to be me. Since moving
to America I have been building up a small practice in executive
search, doing a combination of US and overseas assignments.
My interest in stained glass and in photographing it also dates from
the period around 1996. I had always noticed and greatly admired
stained glass art from my early days in Carlisle, England, which has a fine
gothic cathedral with some original glass dating back to the 14th
century. I had also been a keen photographer since getting my first
camera, an old Brownie box camera, when I was about 9. However, it
wasn't until the mid-90s that I put the two things together and
discovered that stained glass can be extremely photogenic, albeit
requiring more than a little luck and judgment in order to get good
results.
Personally I still use 35mm and always shoot slide film. I
used to shoot negative film but when I began shooting slides as well
it quickly became clear to me that I was getting by far the best
results from slide film and because it is so easy now to get good
prints from slides there is really no reason for me to use negative
film. I get each film scanned as soon as it has been processed and
at what I consider to be a reasonable resolution, 3072 x 2048. This
means that within my portfolio I have digital images on CD and
original slides. Even if the former should deteriorate over time
the latter should be good for many decades if properly stored.
I honestly believe that, given the right equipment and film, I can
produce pictures which include details which simply cannot be fully
appreciated by the naked eye when one is viewing a window in situ.
Visit Neil's
photo
gallery.
At his gallery, Neil sells elegant frameable art and notecards, each
incorporating an actual photographic print of one of his images. He
is a distributor of Glassmasters stained glass reproductions -
miniatures of works by Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright and other
well-known artists. Many pieces are based on original artwork by
Impressionists, Chagall, Kinkade and bird and wildlife artists.
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