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Ever since I could remember I liked having a camera in my hands. At age two I loved to “play” with an old Kodak Brownie box camera, by age five I began taking “snaps” around my yard with an updated version of the Brownie,  and at age eleven with yet another version of the Brownie,  I began photographing the landscape during my family summers in Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado.   These early years with several of Kodak’s boxed marvels began my life with photography as both “art, passion and love of our Natural World” that eventually became a deeply personal pursuit.

I eventually left the old Kodak Brownies behind and began shooting with 35mm Nikon film cameras,...

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Eleanor Brown
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Eleanor Brown lives with her husband Dale, a recently retired Obstetrician Gynecologist, and their yellow lab, Dillon, in both Houston, Texas and Summit County, Colorado, located in the Rocky Mountain high country. Eleanor and her husband love to travel to out of the way places such as Antarctica. the High Arctic, and Alaska among many other locations. They have visited many US National Parks from the lower 48 to Alaska and Hawaii and enjoy driving trips through the American West. In addition to her photography, Eleanor has a layman’s fascination with cutting edge particle and theoretical physics and “where the Universe came from”, along with an interest in the psychodynamics of human behavior.
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