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Kelbi - Atlanta based Commercial and Fine Art Photographer   My photography began commercially, specializing in product and architecture, following training by and graduation from The Art Institute of Atlanta in late 1998.  Since that time, I have searched to find my creative release and individual expression outside of that more bound commercial environment.  In doing so, I have found myself driven by curiosity and fascination with the more intimate details that life offers.  Such as: not just flowers, but the delicate attributes of all of their parts; not just computers, but the urban wonderland of workings inside them; not just the sky, but the natural patters that the sky, the clouds and the sunlight together, construct for us at any given moment.  I look to appreciate that which we are often so familiar with that it becomes so easily taken for granted and overlooked, almost unappreciated, and therefore bringing that cycle around to completion.   My fine art works are straightforward and un-manipulated, the spectator sees what I saw in the moment, through the lens.  I shoot with an old manual camera, usually with slide film,  using strobe lighting which I use to mold my subjects to enhance my aim to create very painterly images within the camera; where the subject is my paint color and shape, the film my canvas, and the lens and my eye, the brushes.  The general response I get from sharing my work usually compares to the freedom of lying in the grass and depicting ones own version of the clouds, everyone sees from their own point of view, and I find each one a compelling addition to the work.  It gives me the sense of having evoked emotion, and I am inspired.  (Seeing the effects of color on emotion has begun to lead me down a path of research based on color therapy in the healthcare industry.)   My aim is to produce imagery that engages the viewer in a dance with color, scale and form.  Thus, creating as unique of an experience for myself in the creation as it does for the onlooker in the viewing.