… A history of professional and cultural leavings and returnings.

I have long had an interest in art and first became interested in photography when I was with the Marine Corps in Iwakuni, Japan. There I worked in the base’s small darkroom doing my own film developing and enlarging of black and white photos as a hobby. Later, after leaving the service and bicycling alone across the US and around Germany and Scandinavia, I returned to Japan where I went to an international college followed by starting a family and working as a teacher at Japan College of Foreign Languages, a renowned school in Tokyo, teaching English and computer skills. After two decades in that country I came back again to the United States in the mid 1990’s and have since then lived and worked in the Bay Area.

For several years, I left behind photography and became involved with oil painting of land and seascapes plus occasional floral arrangements. These past ten years or so, I have come back to photography mixing that love with painting through the technology of computers. Trading in the smell of turpentine and linseed oil for the faint hum of a computer, the brushstrokes of a filbert brush for the movements of an electronic stylus, I use Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter plus various “plug-ins.”

Jeffrey DeSalles