PHOTOGRAPHER
JR McCurdie
“I
am a freelance and commercial photographer. It
is a passion for me and I will continue doing it as long
as that stays true. On the commercial side, I would
be someone you would call if you needed something
unique due to difficult lighting; difficult angles or you
just needed someone who thinks out of the box.
I got started in photography with a brownie box camera
that my grandmother got me at a garage sale, and I have
never really stopped. Several years ago I decided to
really step up my game. I figured that night photography would be one of the hardest things to do well because it has technical, creative and physical challenges.
That is when I jumped into the photography rabbit hole
and have thoroughly enjoyed every second since.”
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34 ART CHOWDER MAGAZINE
y submissions for the contest were all taken
the same night while I was giving a night photography workshop. The goal was to understand how to
take Milky Way photos and then, lo and behold the
Aurora Borealis showed up. I had never
photographed it here before and had only seen it
twice on a photo trip to Iceland. After several hours
on the bridge at Heyburn State Park, I told the
group this is about as good as it gets and the rest of
their night photography may be anticlimactic.