| See my photoArt on exhibit at: |
The Permanent Display Place |
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2601 Oakenshield Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
(301) 424-3562 |
| Exhibition Schedule | Permanent Exhibition |
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| 21st Annual Juried Exhibition | The Patuxent Art League |
| Montpelier Arts Center | Laurel, MD 20708 |
| 9652 Muirkirk Road | December 4 - 28, 2011 |
| Opening Reception and Awards | Sunday Dec. 4, 2011 2:00-4:00 PM |
As a photo artist Jesse pursues his passion
for photographing unique domestic and international
landscapes. The recently formed Photo
Arts
Division of JB Enterprises focuses
on capturing
the unique beauty found in the great
outdoors.
Jesse has photographed the centuries
old
Sphinx and pyramids in Egypt, the snowy
caps
of the Rocky Mountains and the grandeur
of
the Grand Canyon. He has photographed
the
wilds of Africa's Masai Mara including
a
lion commanding his pride, dancing
pink flamingos
in the Ngorongoro Caldera, and snapped
away
as a cheetah chased and captured a
Thompson
gazelle then called her babies to feast
on
the remains.
Closer to home, he has captured the
scenic
wonders of kayakers challenging the
rapids
on the Potomac River in the summer
and the
autumnal foliage in the fall. His Nikon
D70
has captured soft clouds of cherry
blossoms
around the tidal basin and the floral
beauty
of water lilies at the Kenilworth Aquatic
Gardens in Washington, DC.
In a trek across the US he attempted
to capture
Spring as it moved north in 2009. This
year
Spring was a little late and he passed
it
by somewhere in Missouri. However the
trip
provided him the first extended opportunity
to try out his Nikon D300 camera.
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Revised and updated November 21, 2011
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The photo shown above was taken during the
course of a 21 day tour of Peru in October
2008. Stops included the capital city of
Lima, interior cities Arequippa, Cusco, Puno
and a taxi tour of the Sacred Valley. Highlight
of the trip was the beautiful morning spent
at the Inca city of Machu Picchu which has
been identified as one of the seven wonders
of the modern world.
Through his lenses, he illustrates
for us
the sand formations of Egyptian and
American
deserts, the torrents of water flowing
over
Victoria and Niagara Falls and the
sculpted
granite of Arizona's Sedona Red Rock
canyons.
He photographed the rivers, flatlands
and
decaying infrastructure of the United
States
on an east to west coast train ride
followed
by the beauty of the Canadian Rockies
on
his west to east coast return train
ride.
He captured the swans and early blossoms
of Holland's Keukenhof Gardens, the
canals
and bridges of Amsterdam and the temples
carved in rock by Egyptians three thousand
years before Christ walked this earth.
Jesse's interest in photography started
while
he was in Army basic training at Fort
Pickett,
VA. He carried a small Beacon II camera
under
his field jacket, surreptitiously taking
pictures of the shared misery of his
comrades.
His interest continued when he acquired
his
first Olympus 35mm camera that he used
to
take slide photographs of the seldom
seen
California deserts in bloom.
A Systems Engineer fortunate enough to work
in scenic locales around the world,
he took
advantage of opportunities to create
photographic
records of equipment that he designed
and
tested on remote atols in the South
Pacific,
the Hawaiian Islands, Exuma Sound in
the
Bahamas, the Black Forests of Germany,
and
Lake Pend O'reille, Idaho. An assignment
at the British Naval shipyard at Portland,
England enabled him to photograph Roman
Fortifications
built during the first century.
Jesse is particularly passionate in his pursuit
of sunsets and sunrises and has photographed
images of the sunrise at 40 thousand feet
over Amsterdam, rising behind the acacia
trees on the Masai Mara plains of Kenya and
over the edges of the Ngorongoro Caldera.
He has captured the sun as it dips below
the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii and the moon
as it rises over the Nile River.
He is now looking for his next great
photo.
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