Buehner, Rita

Rita Buehner is a semi-professional writer and photographer who combines prose with photographic images to tell a story. With liberal arts bachelor degrees in biology and chemistry and having worked for many years in academic and corporate research, she was trained and paid to search for detail in decision making, drawing conclusions and examining and documenting subjects in either nature or the man-made world. Currently, she’s re-training to see the world less analytically with the left brain and more subjectively with the right brain, the artist’s way.

As a free-lancer, she authored several articles documented with photos for a local paper, produced and self-published two small books of photos (one fiction) and two meditative DVD/CD’s, and is in the idea stage of a work presenting more quiet images of nature in a spiritual, meditative setting.

Workshops with well-known photographers David Middleton, Charles Needle, Jim Richardson and Greg Newington and with Kathy Holman of The Coracle spiritual direction group have expanded Rita’s technical and creative focus. But perhaps the most rewarding learning has occurred during chance encounters with other photographers comparing equipment and techniques. However, she still finds that she has to exercise self-control when out in the field to secure landscape images. She can literally be drawn for hours by the fascination of having the camera’s eye inches away from the intricate beauty of a single flower. A morning trip to get the paper or pick a tomato more often than not results in a mad dash back into the house for a tripod, camera and remote cable release because a dew drop is ready to fall from a petal, the light is changing quickly or the butterfly may leave. Close-up or “macro” photography will always be her passion . . . she thinks.

Please visit Rita's Website for more examples of her quiet images and evolving style.

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