Dan Witte was introduced to photography as an art form, years before achieving any commercial success, by way of his father who was developing his own black & white images in a converted closet when Dan was a child. Extensive darkroom experi- ence as well as years of on location black and white imaging, has resulted in an unmistakable dramatic style in keeping with the world’s best known photographic artists.
Dan specializes in subjects ranging from the natural wilderness, rustic European or exotic Africa. An avid rock climber, private pilot, expert skier and snowboarder, much of his work is influenced or inspired by the outdoor activities and travels these avocations take him to. He makes his home in the art colony of Laguna Beach, California with his family.
I’m a photographer who shoots color and black and white images, that are, from conception, composition, location, and through to the development process and presentation, intended to bring the viewer into and share that amazing moment of light and discovery captured in the lens of my camera. A moment that rarely repeats itself and therefore a singular moment captured for all time.
Most of my recent photography has been concentrating on the panoramic view, achieved not with a wide angle or panoramic lens but by taking several planned and mapped out images along the subject plane. These images are then hand blended in the digital ‘darkroom.’
“My photographs are created to present the viewer with an inspirational moment of beauty and serenity, life and nature and perhaps a reveal of earth’s secrets, captured in a moment of light’s ever changing veil.”