Name:
Victor Van Keuren

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Bio & Visual Exchange Page:
http://www.photoworkshop.com/bv/view/wineguy

Bio & Visual Exchange Index:
http://www.photoworkshop.com/photo_index/wineguy

Portfolio(s):
Victor Van Keuren ||| East Light Studios

Personal Website:
http://eastlightstudios.net

Member Since:
09/20/2006

About Victor Van Keuren:
I began my photgraphic journey in High School in California studying under Janis Miglavs who was an inspirational teacher, mentor and world traveler. I began travelling, Rock Climbing and Mountaineering in my teen years in the Sierra Nevada and throughout the western states of America, eventually living in Alaska for several years. I furthered my photographic experience after meeting a commercial photographer, Edgar Praus, in Glacier Bay, Alaska and becoming his assistant. I helped him build a commercial studio in Rochester, New York. This gave me invaluable experience in working with traditional darkroom techniques in both black-and-white and color production environments that was the basis for my evolution into professional digital photographic techniques. I have since traveled and written widely on topics relating to wine, food and travel. I have been pubished in periodicals, trade magazines, calendars and corporate collections. I currently live on the coast of Maine, on Mt. Desert Island, one of the most beautiful places in the world ...