Hi, I'm Eric Thoemmes, photographer, skier and nature lover.
After 40 years of spending too much time at a desk and in crowded rooms, the time came for me to move to a place with more space and fewer people. Teton Canyon, which rises up to the Grand Teton Mountain Range and the Grand Targhee ski resort, is now home. This place inspired me to reconnect with some long dormant loves, especially skiing and photography. Et voila, the idea for Teton Photo Studio was born.
When I last dabbled in photography I was in my twenties and digital cameras and photo processing were in the future. I grew up in a dark room with developer and fixer on my hands. Ansel Adams was still alive and a huge source of inspiration. I too grew up in Northern California and spent many wonderful days in Yosemite.
Well, like Rip Van Winkle, I woke up decades later to find out that photography had not changed all that much. Yeah, kinda like riding a bike -- just that now it's an eBike! Even though you now capture images on memory cards and process them on a computer, the basic principles of composition, depth of field and light control remain fundamentally the same. Digital cameras still have the aperture, shutter speed and light sensitivity controls that were present on film cameras (minus the film, of course). If Ansel Adams woke up today, I imagine he would be right at home with my mirrorless camera and Lightroom.
So that's my story in a nutshell. Feel free to drop me a note if you have any comments or questions.
Cheers!
Eric -- or"Gandalf" as I'm known to my granddaughter, and she is "Arden in the Garden"