As I enter my 60s, I am spending more time returning to my beloved wilds and more time behind my camera, computer and in my Utopia Imagery Studios creating the images I see in my mind’s eye. I create fine art nature and wildlife photography, food photography, and conduct photography workshops.

I started in dabbling then delving into photography when I was in Junior High. My sister, Koral Martin and I had a darkroom in what was the utility room and processed our own color and black and white film. We also had a black and white enlarger and honed our skills at dodging and burning the old fashion way. To this day I can summon up the smells of the chemical baths, hear the soft slosh as we agitated a tray with developer or fixer, and remember how strange things looked under a pale red light.

I continued shooting and processing through college, even doing some underwater photography (I’m an avid scuba diver) and a bit of shooting still into the part of life I’ll call the “real world.” Sadly, I put my several Minolta cameras down for quite a while until the digital world finally began to unfold.

Now, with the incredible things a digital camera can do (I’m shooting Canon these days) combined with the ability to do dramatic editing on a computer, I’m back doing many of the things I truly enjoy; hiking and camping across the country and making images and conducting workshops along the way.

In Utopia Imagery Studios I do fine art food photography, still lifes, and models in sets I design. I conduct workshops and teach private photography lessons there also.   I created the studio to be flexible, and plan to keep new equipment and props flowing in!

Take some time and look at my online galleries here or on my personal websites, ParhamPBaker.com and TheTastPhotography.com.  Here’s hoping you feel what I felt when you see what I saw.. that I adequately made each image carry the feelings and emotions I hoped to share as I made these images.

So, I’ll see you soon, in an art gallery or along a path less traveled. Till then,

Happy trails!

Parham

Parham’s Utopia People Imagery
Parham’s Fantasy and Cosplay Gallery