Travels In Arizona - Arizona Renaissance Festival - Part The 1st (Ren Fest)

Contains more than 50 color photographs and is more than 55 pages. To keep this book at the lowest possible price it has been divided into 3 parts.This is the first part of three.

The Arizona Renaissance Festival is currently in its 24th year and generally runs from about mid-February to early April, days when the rest of the Nation can be up to its knees in snow and ice sickles forming on the ends of noses. While photographing there on the 3rd of March 2012 the temperature was a modest 85 degrees Fahrenheit
and blue skies horizon to horizon.

The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior.After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine.

Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science.

After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera or hoisting a large medium format 6x7.

The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona.