About Craig Cluny

 

Craig Cluny

Photographer at Large

Painting with Light Since 1956

Since I was about eight, I have been happily snapping away with a variety of cameras including: A Kodak Box Brownie, a Kodak Number 3A-C Autographic Folding Camera, and a Yashica Electro 35. All B&W.

Kodak Circa 1955

Kodak Circa 1915 

Yashica Circa 1970

    Then came Canon 1, a SureShot, Analog, Full Colour Film. Next came Canon 2, a SD400, my first really good Digital. And in 2010, Canon 3, an SX30 IS, a simple, trusty, DSLR.

Canon SureShot Circa 1985

Canon SD400 Circa 2000

Nothing really fancy, you understand. Everything very practical. Obviously a Canon fan.

Canon SX30 IS Circa 2010

Looking back, the serious camera-buff-stuff really arrived with the Yashica 35MM SLR, and lots of B&W Film. I learned how to develop Black and White, so I could participate in the entire photographic process, beginning to end.

Whenever I had a roll of film, and a bit of time, back then, I practiced. I got some additional pointers from the photographer friends I knew -- the ones owning the exotic Rolei Twin Lens, and the elegant Leicas.

My famous friends taught me about Zooms and Depth of Field, Chiaroscuro and so much more.

From Henri Cartier-Bresson, I learned about capturing the precise moment, about raw, street photography. From Ansel Adams, I learned about making exquisite photos far beyond the confines of a studio. And from Edward Steichen, I learned about fine portraiture.

Unawares, me: But that Yashica SLR truly opened strange, new, enticing worlds, one beckoning on to another. I learned how to make the camera an extension of myself.

    I learned how to use it to document my life, and those things I found precious and dear, the ephemeral butterflies and those innumerable things that are forever lasting.  

Today, I consider the World as my Studio, and an infinitesimally small fraction of the Internet, at Etsy.com, my Gallery. I have a limitless range of subjects from which to choose. Every day brings a new challenge, and a new satisfaction.

What’s next? VINTAGE POSTER SHOW 2024! I better get clicking!

Best,

Craig

August 2024

DIRECT LINK: 

https://lensprostudio1.blogspot.com/2024/06/vintage-poster-show-2024.html

THE PALE and FAR BEYOND THE PALE

My Family: Clan MacCluny 18th Century Irish-Scottish Immigrants. From the Pale in East Central Ireland, to the Wilds of Northern Scotland. (There may have been serious trouble between Clan MacCluny and the English Monarchy. Above Legend: Red was "land held by English King". This may have been the only reason the MacCluny Clan migrated to the Scottish Highlands.)

FARTHER BEYOND THE PALE... ACROSS THE IRISH SEA... onto NORTHERN SCOTLAND 

My Family: Clan MacCluny (shortened to Cluny) 18th Century Irish-Scottish Immigrants. From the Pale in East Central Ireland, to the Wilds of Northern Scotland, and just south of Inverness, and north of Perth.

(In this part of the Scottish Highlands, there was a mingling: MacCluny / MacCluney / Cluny Clan, and some intermarriage between the Clans, and finally, a merging with, and allegiance to Clan MacPherson.)

About Castle Cluny

"Cluny Castle, about five miles south-west of Newtonmore in Strathspey was a stronghold of the clan[s]. The original castle dated from the fourteenth century but was razed by the Duke of Cumberland after the Jacobite rising of 1745 which the Macphersons had supported. The present Cluny Castle is in fact a nineteenth century mansion that was built on the site of the original stronghold."

Source: Wikipedia