Cory O’Neil is our presenter for November 18th Program Night

Cory was a member of our camera club for years.  Now with his full schedule he critiques for us in the month of November.  His outstanding images and knowledge of post processing has been enlightening to many of us. He will talk us through his post processing regime and give us his experience of working with enhancing images.

Cory worked as a guide for an adventure youth camp in the High Sierra which gave him a profound appreciation for wilderness, and the life changing moments that are created by simply spending  time in a world mostly unchanged by the human hand. Like so many others, he found himself moved and challenged in ways that were hard to describe, and from these moments, a life-long passion for wild areas--and the preservation of those areas--was born. This love of wilderness has remained a central part of who he is as a person for almost three decades. In that time, he’s found that photography has provided a means to share some of what he experiences with others.

Perhaps unconventionally, he shares an image only if it communicates the deepest emotions of the moment. Often he returns many times to a single location in order to capture “the” image, at the sacrifice of visiting many places briefly. And so, visitors won’t find his gallery packed full of thousands of images from hundreds of locations. Instead, they will find fewer images, each unique in its own beauty, capturing the essence of the place it was taken at the very finest moment.