2016. Pacific Orchid Exposition, California Coastal Cruise, Monterey Area Trip, Armstrong Garden Center, LEGOLAND in Carlsbad CA, Princess Alaska Denali Explorer Trip, New Zealand and Australia Cruise Trip
Welcome to JPGallery. John is an amateur photographer who has been taking "serious" pictures since 1971 when he was in the Air Force stationed at Altus AFB, Oklahoma. There was a definite need to express himself artistically in that environment and the top notch darkroom facilities that were provided gave him an impetus to do so. For his first camera, he purchased a medium format (2 1/4 X 2 1/4 inch negative) Yashica Mat 124G, All pictures taken with that camera were in black and white. In July of 1971 he purchased a good quality 35mm camera, the Yashica TL Electro-X ITS SLR, and took both B&W negatives and color slides with it. When he moved to Edwards AFB in April of 1972, he set up his own darkroom where he performed both B&W and color negative work. In 1975 he was discharged from the Air Force and moved back to Marin County, CA where he has lived since. During that period he purchased several Canon EOS cameras and has taken mostly color photographs, slides and negatives. In mid 2003 he purchased his first digital camera, a Canon EOS 10D SLR. Since then he purchased and took pictures with a Canon PowerShot SX210 IS and even with an iPhone.
Over the years he has taken many pictures but only a selected set of them will be shown here. Photographs are presented chronologically by period. Some periods are further broken into sub-periods. Periods and sub-periods are accessed by clicking on the thumbnail picture or the corresponding underlined text link to the right of the thumbnail. If there are no further sub-periods, the group of photographs for that period will be presented with brief descriptions. Links to the parent period page will be provided. Since the file size of each photo generally ranges from 50-100K, a high-speed Internet connection, though not essential, is highly recommended to make viewing more enjoyable. For best presentation, photographs are large enough to generally fill, but still fit in, the browser window as long as the total screen area is 1024 X 768 pixels or denser (maximum dimensions of most photographs are 750 pixels wide and 600 pixels high) and the available browser window has not been reduced substantially.
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1971 to early 1972. Altus AFB, OK and surrounding areas, including trips to the San Francisco Bay Area and Colorado/New Mexico |
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April 1972 to April 1975. Edwards AFB, CA and surrounding areas and trips to the San Francisco Bay Area and the Rocky Mountains |
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May 1975 to 1980. Back to the San Francisco Bay Area |
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1981 to 1986. Local and trip pictures |
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1987 to 1988. Local and trip pictures |
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1989 to 1999. Local and East Coast trip |
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2000 to early 2003. California, Oregon and trips to the East Coast, London/Paris and the Southwest. Start of going digital from slides and negatives, mainly for a personal web site. Editing with Fireworks and Photoshop |
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May to December 2003. Digital SLR becomes main camera. Extensive use of Photoshop for editing. Local and Alaska trip |
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January to September 2004. Local and London/Paris trip |
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October to December 2004. Rome trip and Mediterranean cruise |
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2005. Caribbean cruise, Mexican Riviera cruise and local area |
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2006. Caribbean cruises, Palm Beach Florida, Holland trip, Baltic Sea cruise and New Mexico trip |
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2007. Pacific Orchid Expo, Sonoma CA, San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, Cruise of the Atlantic coast/Nova Scotia/St. Lawrence River, Niagara Falls/Toronto, Sonoma County Fair and Marin Co. Farmers' Market, Napa Valley wineries, local pictures |
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2008. Pacific Orchid Expo, local pictures and Chihuly exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco |
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2009. San Francisco California Academy of Sciences, Nathaniel, Pacific Orchid Expo, Monterey Bay Area in February, Yosemite National Park, cruise to Alaska that began and ended in Seattle, family outing to the Monterey Bay Area in September that included the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Asilomar, the Carmel Mission and Point Lobos State Reserve, Lake Tahoe's Sand Harbor State Park, Garden Valley Ranch in Petaluma, CA and pictures taken during Thanksgiving and two Christmas gatherings |
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2010. Mushroom series, cactus pot, grandchildren, Legion of Honor and Beach Chalet in San Francisco, Northgate Mall candy machines and plants, very extensive series of manzanita tree bark, fungi and Indian Warrior wildflowers in China Camp State Park, California and Pacific Orchid Show with a theme of Carnaval!, Cruise to Alaska |
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2011. Pacific Orchid Show, tree fungi, bark and Indian Warrior flower series in China Camp State Park, Truckee and Donner Lake CA, San Francisco Garden Show, Graffiti, Petaluma Train Depot, Nicasio CA, succulent vase, a bier stein, and a cruise from Southhampton, England to Le Havre, France and around the British Isles |
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2012. Pacific Orchid Exposition, San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, "Bouquets to Art", "Voyage of the Vikings" cruise, Back-to-Back Cruises in the Mediterranean Sea |
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2013. Daffodil Hill, Black Chasm Cavern, San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, Key West Florida |
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2014. San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, Princess Canadian Rocky Mountains and Alaska tour |
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2015. Pacific Orchid Exposition, San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, Flowers from Our Garden, Trip to Monterey (Monterey Bay Aquarium, Point Pinos Lighthouse), Trip to SeaWorld in San Diego, Cruise to the Mexican Riviera |
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2016. Pacific Orchid Exposition, California Coastal Cruise, Monterey Area Trip, Armstrong Garden Center, LEGOLAND in Carlsbad CA, Princess Alaska Denali Explorer Trip, New Zealand and Australia Cruise Trip |
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2017. Tahoe Donner area, ski clothes in Reno store, home garden flowers, decorated auto at Marin County Fair - Summer of Love, Safari West, Klimt exhibit and Christmas. |
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2018. Lake Tahoe, the Ruth Bancroft Garden), the San Francisco Garden Show, my Home Garden ), the Grand Princess Inside Passage Cruise, Tiburon, the Truth and Beauty exhibitit at the Legion of Honor, at Safari West, at the Sutter Creek flea market, the Princess Pacific North Coast Cruise. |
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2019. "East meets West" exhibit at deYoung museum, Tahoe Donner weekend, "Monet - The Late Years" exhibit at deYoung museum, "Gauguin - A Spiritual Journey" at deYoung museum, flowers from our home garden. |
All photographs on this site ©1971-2019 John Pritchard and Holly Pritchard
Web site ©2005-2019 John Pritchard
Last Updated December 21, 2019