NATURE THROUGH THE GLASS EYE
“My photographic images are personal interpretations that I love to share. For me, photography is the illusive craft of seeing and making images, vignettes or visual fragments. These images are fragments in time that interest me when I am there, at the moment. In another moment, the image is gone and so am I”
Ted Ledbetter (March 14,1937 - March 5, 2005)
Ted was always an artist. His journey as an artist began at a very early age. He loved doing cartoons in pencil and ink, and later created realistic stilllifes using charcoal and oils.
After graduation from Carmel High School in 1955 he pursued a Fine Arts major receiving his training at San Francisco State University. It was in college that he had his first experience behind the camera. He had finally found the medium, which intrigued him on all levels — taking the picture and then bringing the negative to life on paper.
Ted read every photography book that he could get his hands on, and then continued his studies in workshops conducted by noted local fine art photographers, Steve Crouch, Morley Baer and Ansel Adams to guide him on his journey through the eye of the lens.