Steven D. Green Photography

I am a professional airline pilot, and am fortunate enough to live in rural Vermont. In the late 1980's I began flying for TWA, and almost immediately had the opportunity to fly international routes to Europe and the Middle East. It only took one trip to Geneva on a delightful spring day to realize that a good camera was going to be essential. I started with a pair of used Ricoh bodies and a couple of used zoom lenses. I shot a lot of film, particularly the old Kodachrome ASA 25 until it disappeared. Eventually, I began to realize that good 35mm film was going the way of my vinyl record collection, and I succumbed to the digital revolution. I now use a Fuji S3 and a Nikon D5000, with lenses appropriate to being damaged or lost in the course of several hundred trips up into an overhead storage bin, under "the seat in front of you", back into the cockpit closet, or into the crew bus baggage bin.

Vermont affords its own photographic opportunities which I am obviously not the first to discover. It offers some of the most pristine views of Americana that I know of, uncorrupted by roadside advertising or the ubiquitous homogenization of landscape that seems more and more common in many places as I get older.

I use a pretty simplistic digital enhancement workflow, with the goal of trying to insure that the image reproduces as closely as possible what I saw with my eye. I've often thought it would be interesting to replace one of my corneas with a CCD, and simply blink to record whatever image I happened to be looking at. Alas, for now, the CCD remains in the camera...but you get the idea.

Enjoy!