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William Carpenter
William Carpenter has been an avid photographer since
early childhood. He grew up during the golden age of photography when
it was the dominate communications media. The popular magazines of
that era, Life, Look, National Geographic and yes, a nascent Playboy, were
full of wonderful photographs and these had a lasting influence on him.
His first camera was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye. He still has and is
proud of the images he took with that camera. In the interim he has
taken thousands of images: slides; color negatives; black and white
medium format which he self-developed and printed; and now digital using a
computer as dark room.
Since semi-retiring in 2004, Carpenter has devoted more time to photography
and has pursued a formal photographic education. He has studied at
Seminole Community College where he took three courses, and at The Crealde
School of Art where he has taken 12 courses and numerous workshops. He
also took a summer course at the Maine Photography Workshop on Essentials of
the Photo Essay. Carpenter has exhibited with two other photographers
in a nature exhibit at the Showalter Hughes Community Gallery at Crealde in
2006.
Carpenter’s recent concentration has been Documentary Photography. He
has produced documentaries on Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings at Florida
Southern College; Pedestrian safety issues on Aloma Avenue and Semoran
Boulevard in the Orlando area; Central Florida Commuter Rail (SunRail); and
his current project, Along Florida State Route 50 with three other
photographers. All of these documentaries are on web sites which
Carpenter designed and programmed.