Bio for Chris Mungall – Presentation on 11/8/16
Chris took up photography at school in England at age 15 or so. He
purchased his first SLR (a Nikon) when he was a graduate student at
the University of Alaska. In the late 60’s. (He came across several
hundred color slides from those days last Christmas!)
He got serious about photography at the time of 9/11 (“life’s short and
unpredictable, so enjoy it while you can”). Luckily he had a fine
excuse to get good Canon equipment -- his wife needed photos of
Texas antelope for her books!
Not unusual for an engineer he is more into documentary
photography than ‘artistic’ photography. He does understand that, all
things considered, art is need to produce ‘pleasing’ pictures. In
addition to wildlife photography and other forms of still photography,
he indulges in videography – wildlife, travel, people, weddings –
whatever seems useful or pleasing.
Although Chris is at heart a technician, he considers most satisfying
of all to take, and then offer as gifts, portraits of people.
Chris’s program this evening might be termed “Emergency
videography using DSLRs and video-enabled cameras.” It is mostly
based on two film school courses that he took while in Houston,
added to which are lessons learned from an abundant set of filmmaking mistakes that he has made!