May 1st – June 26th, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Wednesday, May 7th 6-8 pm
with a Brief Gallery Talk at 7pm
Additional Gallery Photography Talk and Presentation
Wednesday, June 4th 6:30pm
Husband and wife photographers, Bryce Denison and Linda Piasecki, share their compelling photography of some of the animals and insects that inhabit our wild world, near and far. Whether using a traditional SLR camera, a digital SLR or a cell phone camera, these images capture the essence of each wild animal’s characteristics.
“Photography has taken us all over the world, allowing us to share skills and vision with students, friends, family, and colleagues. We enjoy making photographs of many diverse subjects such as wildlife, landscape, nature, and more. While magnificent images can be made within only a few miles of your home, travel opens up wonderful additional opportunities.”
Linda Piasecki
My love of the out-of-doors started with camping with my family and with the Girl Scouts. My fascination with photography began when I needed an extra English class to graduate from college and I took Introduction to Film (movies) and received my first camera at Christmas, a Yashica GSN. Linda holds a B.S. from Eastern Michigan University in Teaching with an emphasis in Outdoor Education and an M.S. in Education from the University of Michigan. She retired from teaching after 35 years on the faculty of both Grosse Pointe and Detroit. She was also a Naturalist for the Huron-Clinton Metro Parks and for the Girl Scouts of Metro Detroit. Now she teaches various photography classes at Midwest Photography Workshops.
Bryce Denison
“My father was a professional hunting and fishing guide. As such, I was raised on a diet of wild game and fish, complemented by fresh vegetables from our family’s seven-acre garden in Gibraltar, Michigan. Through my father’s tutelage, I learned the ways of nature: hunting, fishing, and about flora and fauna. I even ran a trap line as a kid (muskrat). As a youth, I shot with a gun; now I shoot with a camera. “
Shoot what makes your heart sing!
Bryce Denison holds a B.F.A. from the College for Creative Studies; The College of Art and Design, and a M.A. from Wayne State University in photography. He travels and lectures around the country at colleges and at various photographic events, and presents workshops in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica and Italy. He retired as a forensic photographer for the City of Detroit Fire Department. His work is represented in the permanent collection of several museums and galleries, as well as private collections across the country. Bryce has been on the faculty and/or the Director of Midwest Photography Workshops since 1980.
My entire family has always been outdoor-oriented. I still love to hike, camp, canoe, and to fully experience the Great Outdoors. I have a natural curiosity of all things, and I try to capture and share the images of beauty in what I see and experience. I hope my photographs inspire you to share and embrace my love of the natural world.
The selection of which images to include in this exhibition was very difficult. I wanted to show the diversity of fauna, ranging from mammals, birds, reptiles vertebrates and invertebrates while including a diverse range of species as possible given the limited wall space. Over 50,000 images were reviewed, with hundreds of images that could still be exhibited, but time, space, and budget prevented their inclusion.
2025 marks the beginning of my 60th year in photography. The first 39 years of my career in photography was based on film – until 2004 when digital imaging equaled, then began to surpass, film quality. Since then, all my image making has been digital.
I printed this entire display on an Epson 9900 inkjet digital printer at Midwest Photography Workshops, the school which I own and direct. Some of the images came from my film archives, and then scanned into digital images from which to make the digital prints in this display. All editing was done on a Macintosh computer using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop to maximize color accuracy and brilliance. For a majority of my 60 years in photography, my camera of choice has been a large format camera such as a Linhoff 4×5, or a Deardorff 8×10. Medium format cameras included Hasselblad, Pentax 6×7, or Mamiya RB 67. Small format film and digital cameras were primarily Sony, Fuji or Nikon. The majority of images in this exhibit were made using either a Nikon camera and Nikon lenses or a Sony Camera with Sony lenses. I rarely make a landscape, nature or wildlife photograph without the benefit of a Gitzo tripod.
In 2015, the National Center for Nature Photography granted me the privilege of exhibiting more than 80 of my framed images of various species of animals taken throughout North America and environs. The exhibit was cleverly titled, Fauna of North and Central America. The fauna images on display here at the Huntington Woods Gallery are a selection of the images displayed in that exhibition.
http://www.brycedenisonfineartphotography.com/
The Woods Gallery is located in the lower level of the Huntington Woods Library and is open during library hours.