Peter Steele

About Peter Steele

I am a self-taught photographer with 21 years experience. Mostly I have concentrated on photographing nature and landscape images, capturing the early morning and late afternoon sunlight. I use all manual photographic equipment: a 1954 Linhof Technika (4x5 format), a 1954 Rollieflex (medium format), and a 1992 Nikon FM2 (35 mm format). My work is not computer enhanced or manipulated.

More recently, I have worked on several theme-based shows, such as Human Nature, the juxtaposed images of humanity in nature; or Lunar and Landscape, images that incorporate the moon.
Presently I am working on a unique product I call Solar Art. In a few words, Solar Art is an enlarged transparency of one of my many nature images, which I frame for UV resistant window display. It is designed to hang in a window using the sun to illuminate. These pieces add another dimension to traditional photographic prints because they are transparencies. The feel of the image changes as weather and time change the intensity and angle of the sun.

I am a seven-year participant in Boulders Open Studios and have been affiliated with the Shows on Loan art organization for the past 7 years exhibiting in the Denver metro area. I have been represented by Peter Daniel’s Artisian Gallery and Art Space Gallery in Stroudsburg, PA. as well as the Aperture Gallery in Denver, CO.

In October of 2002, I took first place in the Shows on Loan juried exhibit at the College Hill Library in Westminster with my photograph titled Ethereal Gates.

In 2001 three of my nature images were used for three cover shots for the Harmony catalog. In August of 2002, I was published in the Living Arts Catalog and in April 2003, I was published in Lifestyle magazine.

In 2004 my piece titled Moonset Monolith was juried into the American Art Collector Volume 1 Book 2 for the Central States Artists.

In 2005 my piece titled Tattooed Aspen took People Choice Award in the Louisville Art Association Regional Juried Photography show and was excepted in the 2005 American Art Collector Book Volume 2 for the Central States.
My work ranges in size from 4”x6” up to but not limited to 20” x 30”.