Welcome
Geoffrey Parkhurst lives and works on Martha’s Vineyard where he
finds an abundance of subjects, from landscapes and oceanscapes, to
flora and fauna, and from the celestial to the microscopic. (And
dogs in cars.)
Geoff assembled his first dark room as a teenager in the late 1960s
and his focus as a photographer has been evolving ever since.
As a physicist, software engineer, and image scientist, he has used
his interest and expertise in imaging and human perception to create
innovative technologies for a series of high-tech ventures. In the
process, his skills, tools, and perspective on photography have
grown as well.
Geoff has always been an adherent of Ansel Adams’ discipline in
controlling the entire photographic process from end to end. (As
Adams expressed in the difference between “taking a picture” and
“making a photograph.”)
His years of work in color science and designing software for
imaging have yielded powerful tools for producing technically
sophisticated photographs, with lush color and rich detail, but his
underlying aspiration is to direct those tools to reproduce the
emotional response that the original scene evoked.
