About Thomas Bethune
THOMAS ALLEN BETHUNE
I have been interested in photography for most of my life. I started taking photographs with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera when I was eight years old. My early subjects were trains and engineered structures as well as landscapes and family portraits. My interests and vision have matured, but the subjects that catch my eye continue to be of the same genre as my earliest visions.
A neighbor man had a darkroom, and he showed me the basics of camera operation and darkroom processing. I took courses in art and photography in high school and college. I worked as an apprentice to a commercial wedding and event photographer, and I was in charge of a recreational dark room while I was in the military. As an adult, I earned a bachelor’s degree in photography from Humboldt State University. My experience with film formats included 35mm, 2 ¼”, and 4”x 5”. I exhibited at galleries near my home in Arcata California, and in Santa Fe New Mexico.
All my current work is digital. I am scanning many of my legacy negatives and slides. I sometimes process and print the scanned negatives. I often post them on my blog. I process all of my prints with archival media.
An award winning fine art photographer living in a redwood forest.
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Director, Redwood Art Association, Eureka CA
Co-curator, F Street Foto Gallery, Eureka CA
Memorial to fishermen at Woodley Island, Eureka/Humboldt Bay.
I took this today as part of my practicing with my new travel camera.
Posted in building, color photography, eureka, historic building, historic eureka, historic humboldt, history of humboldt county, humboldt bay, humboldt county, humboldt county history, logging, redwood, Uncategorized
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I took this photograph with color slide film in a Kodak Brownie camera sometime around 1960. The original was covered with fungus, and I did a lot of processing with Photoshop. So this image is a sort of group effort … Continue reading →
Posted in color photography, dome, film photography, fine art photography, hand-tint, imagination, landscape, sierra nevada, Uncategorized, wilderness, Yosemite
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Taken earlier today this is the north entrance. The rest of the tunnel is relatively dry and clean.
Posted in california history, fine art photography, historic humboldt, history of humboldt county, northwestern pacific railroad, old west, railroad, southern pacific, sp, train, trains, Uncategorized
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I took this image the evening prior to the image that I posted here yesterday.
Although I am not posting often, I am almost always working on some aspect of my photography. On a near daily basis, I work on images either in Lightroom or in Photoshop. Lately, I spent lots of time scanning my … Continue reading →
Posted in architecture, backroads, buildings, central valley, color photography, fine art photography, night time sky, small town, Uncategorized, Williams
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Tagged buildings, California, fine art photography, night sky
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Two images of Edison Highway, East Bakersfield, 1975.
Thomas Bethune's Photographic Journal 