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The Lens Paper
March, 2004
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Respesses remained in Santa Cruz for another two years
while Jan completed her own degree in biology. Then,
they moved back to San Francisco where Jim completed a
master’s degree in molecular biology. From there, it was
off to Ann Arbor for a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular
biology at the University of Michigan. “In college, I
became fascinated with DNA, and especially with
recombinant DNA, and genetic engineering as that
technology was developing.”
After five years of upper midwestern winters, Jim was
looking for post-doctoral training in a warmer climate,
which brought them to San Diego. While at the University
of California, San Diego, Jim was recruited as a founding
scientist to a company that would be named Viagene, Inc.
There he designed retroviral vectors for the purpose of
human gene therapy. Much of that work over nine years
has been recorded in several handfuls of issued U.S patents.
Success, as it often happens with start-up companies, meant
being bought out by a larger company. “Rather than
change my focus from creative research to administration, I
chose to move on to my next career.”
Jim has been taking photographs since receiving his first
camera out of a cereal box, at the age of ten. Both parents
were amateur photographers, moving from their Vest
Pocket Kodak to 35 mm sometime in the ‘50s. “I still have
negatives from shots taken with that little plastic cereal box
camera. I haven’t used any yet in a digital composition, but
I plan to.” Jim’s principal goal in his new career of
photography was to make art. His first step was to go back
to school to get some more photography and darkroom
training. It was there that he discovered the Photoshop
software. “My immediate fascination with Photoshop was
similar to my attraction to DNA technology. So many of
the crazy things I was trying to do in the camera and in the
darkroom were now facilitated with that software.”
While Jim’s art has progressed, resulting in prizes in local,
national and international art exhibitions, he has also
developed a digital printing business, Green Flash
Photography. Since 1999, he has been printing
professionally, making fine art reproductions (giclée) for
visual artists and exhibition prints for photographers. “One
of my greatest challenges now is balancing the time
between the ever growing printing business and making
art.” To see some of Jim’s art, go to his web site at
greenflashphotography.com.
CURRENT SHOWS
Tom O. Scott is having a solo exhibition at the Encinitas City
Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Ave., Encinitas, during the entire month
of March. The exhibition features many pieces from his Sand
Art portfolio, his new Natural Abstracts portfolio, and other
studies. You can preview some of the works that are on
display at Tom’s website <http://www.tomoscott.com>.
The Ordover Gallery will feature Owen McGoldrick, who's
work entitled American Gothic, includes haunting landscapes
and color images of the American West. The artist’s
reception is on Thursday, March 18, 6 to 8:30 p.m. “Join us
for a night of art, wine and music.” The Ordover Gallery
located at Studio 172, 444 South Cedros Ave., Solana
Beach. This show runs through April 10. NOTE: Be
sure to read the article on Abe Ordover in the March, 2004,
issue of Petersen’s Photographic magazine.
“Water Worlds” at “The Photographer’s Gallery” at North
County Camera (address under Sponsors on back page)
continues through April 4, 2004. Works by members Peter
Gorwin and Donna Cosentino are featured along with four
other artists.
The C.O.A.L. Gallery in Carlsbad (Carlsbad Village Faire
Shopping Center, 300 Carlsbad Village Drive, Suite 101) has
its 54th Annual Membership Award Show running until April
4th. Jacquie Thye, a member of NCPS, has won 2nd Place in
this juried show for her photo of a borax train in Death Valley.
"Photographers of Genius at the Getty" runs from March
16 to July 25, 2004. This exhibit showcases the works of 38
renowned photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron,
Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, and Andre Kertesz. For more
information call (310) 440-7300 or go to
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