't constantly take experimenting with lighting shadows composition is to spend hours in a dark room his name is julius livingston and he was a lift operator for glenallan at the time and i was doing publication for green mountain valley school of time and we were talking to all different people up the ski area and in the in the field area when i was in high school went to the green mountain valley school which is a ski racing school that was actually the school photographer and i did a ton of ski shots back then went to university of vermont i don't know how i lucked out but i got some of my favorite musicians i was able to get a photo pass for and do the shooting for the cynic training at the time was one of my favorite musicians and and i remember being up on stage and i mean like right by the speakers and it will to get some really awesome shots from that same with carlos santana both of them i think were patrick gymnasium and i remember unless you're like right up front the sound was horrible in that venue if you  halfway back it was like pure echoey you know i was locked out get right up front graduated there in eighty three and mainly started off and photojournalism did a little bit of photography and weddings and stuff like that but they hadn't really like that then i moved to boston in the early eighties and start doing more commercial industrial an advertising work and i always did my nature photography but didn't seem like there was a huge demand for it in terms of selling it so i did more product photography  advertising and settings and stuff then moved to vermont in one thousand nine hundred nine and built this studio in ninety five i was working at a my house had  us studio down my basement was pretty like half the size of this and the early ninety's i'd say did a lot of musicians photography for musicians promo shots group shots for musicians along my advertising and product photography the musician photography was a lot of fun but not very financially rewarding musicians don't have any money and they all want to super deal so i was doing like a hundred dollar portfolio specials for four years for for musicians and bands and i still get calls from musicians done a little bit of traveling across country and lived in different areas and i'm always i'm always out hiking taking photos of nature and very very close to nature very into gardening so i think that a lot of those just capture my fascination with nature and just try to capture amazing sights said maybe other people might see sitting would know dodge and burn make some areas darker or lighter but back in the day with film you couldn't enhance like the color or the sharpness and stuff like that you were you had to individually i'd like mask the paper and set up the larger and each one was so i mean that photo pite took me like all day to produce like a full eight hour day to produce that testing and what not worse now you can miss the dark i do miss film i don't miss the chemistry i don't miss the the the labor of the dark room i do miss the magic of it in terms of seeing that image come out of the chemistry just appear right on the paper or something magical about that that i think is missing with photoshop and digital imaging violin maker and maple producer that were both just down the road and then i think like the first five or six in the series were all craftspeople within a couple miles of jericho center and i've spread out did done a few musicians some cultural producer so i decided to do something and i totally different as i have nothing like that in any of my past off really i've been taking photos of that tree it's straight out there like right across my house i'm always taking shots of that because it's always like cool light on it or it's always just like standing out there actually a friend of mine just nicknamed it it's not a very big tree it looks big and down here because it's up on hill but it's really not that big of a tree when you get up to it and there's always like different different feelings of that view every time i go out there so i thought it was i thought to be an interesting collage for that i have a few pictures of that store i picture from back it was back in one thousand ninety's early ninety's when they buried like one hundred fifty feet away i think maybe i might be a little possessed by a more something i was born in sixty five and i can't remember the time i didn't love the snow i got hooked five i did a d v d documentary on stuff a bally and included some kind of collage montage type of musical pieces as part of that  that kind of centers around some of his quotes he was he was pretty poetic in his writing one or two people there was like nobody was nobody showed up i think the next day or a couple days later in richmond and i think he decided not to go he said nobody shows up in my own town who's