I live near Shipshewana, Indiana, with my wife, Pam. I love to take pictures and capture videos of life here in Northern Indiana. I also travel a good deal, so the images you might see on the website davidarment. Photos will include images of oceans, National Parks, and deserts taken from places throughout the United States and Canada.

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I also enjoy writing, and I’ve started a “storyboard” or blog at www.thefinestory.comwhere you can read humorous fictional and true stories.

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Every photographer thinks of themselves as an artist, don’t you imagine? What makes a picture a work of art versus a snapshot? Is it that it catches your attention, captures your eye, makes you wish you were there, or takes you to someplace outside of your current reality? Some people call it “a good eye” when a photographer sees something that most people walk past and never see. Others think it is a set of rules you can apply to a given composition to make it appealing.

Maybe those things are true. All I know is that I often have the feeling when I’m outdoors looking for images that are different from “normal”. I enjoy the sense of looking for beauty and the sense that something special just happened when I KNOW I captured a good image. Sometimes, when you capture an image, you know it is a good one, and you can’t wait to get it onto the computer screen and see it. Other times you find something that is good as you review files on the computer, and at the time you capture it, you think, “Well, this might be okay.”

In either case, it is fun to work on these images. And when I’m outside, I have the renewed sense that “God is here”. He did this. This can’t be an accident. Look at that tadpole. Now it’s a polliwog. Now it’s a frog. How did that happen? Look at those bees swarming in that tree trunk. Look at that monarch butterfly, and wonder how many miles did it fly from South America to get here. How did it know to do that? Landscape photography is something that you have to love to do. The rewards are not monetary. There has to be something else to make you do this for years. After you invest in cameras, bodies, lenses, and software, you won’t be making your investment back (at least I haven’t ever been able to).

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David Arment March Guest Artsist 2024