1607 19th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301 - (661) 869-2320
" Michael Thorpe Photography”
M ICHAEL THORPE is a photographer and instructor who has been teaching the techniques and the art of photography to high school students in the Kern County area since 2013.
“I love getting to see that spark come alive in a student, when they get to see their own vision realized.”
Thorpe says, “I’ve been carrying a camera of some sort ever since I was a kid.” He says his first camera was a Kodak Brownie.
In high school Michael learned to shoot and edit video and that lead to a later career in television broadcasting.
In college he studied photography, developing and printing his own black and white photographs.
Today Michael regularly carries a DSLR and ‘develops’ his photos on a computer.
"I am a big believer in composition. It doesn’t matter if you have good technical ability if you can’t ‘see’ the picture. You have to see it!"
All of Michael Thorpe photos for this show are either metal prints or gallery wraps. The sizes are all 16” x 24”. The gallery wraps will be $200, and the metal prints will be $300.
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell
Mikal, Todd Thorpe Photographer
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