Artist's Resume

Artist's Resume

C. D. "Kit" Courter

Torrance, Ca

email: LunarLightPhoto@earthlink.net

Awards

January 1983

First Place, B&W Landscape
HughesNews Annual Photo Contest
"Palm Grove, Anza Borrego Desert", 1983

February 1987

Honorable Mention, B&W Landscape
Hughes El Segundo Employees Association Annual Photo Contest
" Road at Vallecito, Ca", 1983

February 1990

First Place, Color Landscape
Hughes El Segundo Employees Association Annual Photo Contest
"Sunrise, Siberia II", 1987

February 1991

First Place, B&W Landscape
Hughes El Segundo Employees Association Annual Photo Contest
" Abandoned Migrant Worker's Cabin", 1990

February 2004

2 Honorable Mention Awards
Trainorders.com Photo Contest (Railroad Oddities)
" Collapsed Tunnel Portal ", 1978 (Carrizo_Gorge_022)
" Midnight at Lower Klondike Loop ", 2001 (2001-01-03-10)

May 2004

2 Honorable Mention Awards
Trainorders.com Photo Contest (Railroads from Dusk to Dawn)
" Lower Afton by Moonlight ", 1999 (C-1999-01-01-12)
" Moonrise at Sanborn ", 2004 (2004-03-01-35)

November 2006

First Prize Award
Trainorders.com Fall Photo Contest (Railroads At Speed)
" Speeding Through The Crossing ", 2002 (2002-02-01-32)

Group Shows

November 1982

Gallery Eight, San Diego, Ca.
(Annual Member's exhibit)
" Reflections on an Industrial Society ", 1982
" Marian MacDorman ", 1982

July 1983

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Ca
(Informal MOPA publicity event)
"Bank Building, Ryolite, Nevadat", 1983
and other prints.

February 1987

Hughes El Segundo Employees Association Annual Photo Show
"Road at Vallecito, Ca.", 1983
"Stunted Tree, Thomas Mountain, Ca.", 1984
and other prints

February 1990

Hughes El Segundo Employees Association Annual Photo Show
"Sunrise, Siberia II", 1987
"Detail, Lost Burro Mine", 1983
"Dune and Cloud, Mojave Desert, Ca.", 1983

March 1990

Santa Monica First United Methodist Church Photo Show
"Abandoned Migrant Worker's Cabin, Antellope Valley, Ca.", 1990
"Rocky Mountain Goat and Fall Landscape, Summit Lake, Colorado", 1986
"Communication", 1985 (from the series Rock and Ruin)

February 1991

Hughes El Segundo Employees Association Annual Photo Show
"Abandoned Migrant Worker's Cabin, Antellope Valley, Ca.", 1990
"Rocky Mountain Goat and Fall Landscape, Summit Lake, Colorado", 1986

March 2005

Winterail Railroad Photography Exhibition, Stockton, Ca.
Photos included a multimedia presentation by Evan Werkema titled "Logs Rolling", including a keyed-registration 12 image sequence that concluded the presentation. The photos were of of Union Pacific log train SBOWD-18 as it passed through San Timoteo Canyon, West Colton, and Fontana, Ca.

March 2006

Winterail Railroad Photography Exhibition, Stockton, Ca.
Multi-media presentation titled "While You Lay Sleeping", featuring night images of railroads and landscapes set to an original freestyle guitar composition, written and performed by myself. The presentation contained both still images and short movie sequences made from sequential time-lapse night images (some made in very dark, moonless conditions), and was very well received by a theater full of people. I have been told it set the bar higher for Winterail shows in the future.

May 2007

GorgeRail Railroad Photography Exhibition, The Dalles, Oregon.
"Halcyon Days on the Harbor Sub - a 25 minute multimedia show of images and music featuring the work of myself and several other photographers.

February 2008

Arvada Railroad Photography Roundtable, Arvada, Colorado.
"While You Lay Sleeping" multimedia railroad night photography project got its second public showing.

Web Group Shows

2004 - 2007

Featured guest photographer on David Baldwin's excellent night photography web site.

October 2006

Featured photographer on Kevin Scanlon's The Photographer's Railroad Page

Photos in Magazine Articles and Books

January, 1995

"A Star is Reborn"
Indian Motorcycle Illustrated
(With Scott Hartley)
Includes cover photo, two gutter-fold photo spreads, and one detail image.

October, 2003

CTC Board Rialroads Illustrated (Issue #300, page 36)
2003 "Day in North America" issue
Photo of Pacific Harbor Lines west basin train.

February, 2006

CTC Board Rialroads Illustrated (Issue #328, pages 20-21)
2006 "Day in North America" issue
Night photo at Pacific Harbor Lines Pier A Yard (2-page spread)
Antique road crossing signal, Hawthorne, Ca.

April, 2007

"Lighting" by David Prakel, AVA Basics Photography series volume 2, page 67
"Polar Star Trails and Trees in Moonlight, 2004"

July, 2007

"Capturing The Feeling of Ambient Night" in MagnaChrom (Volume 1, Issue 5, pp 20-25),
Four images from large format transparencies.

Books

1997

"Tie and other poems"
Collected poems from 1972-1997. Unpublished.

2000

"Icinder and other poems"
Poems from 1995-2000. Unpublished

May 2002

"Shasta Cycle"
The story of an eleven day solo journey by bicycle told in 28 modern poems
Published by LunarLight Press
(Limited distribution - at least for now)

Web Sites

January 2002

LunarLight Photography
http://homepage.mac.com/kitathome
(retired October 2002)

November 2002

LunarLight Photography
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitathome/LunarLight/index.html

May 2003

Expanded web site with many more photos and a new Poetry page.

October 2003 - Present

LunarLight Photography web site includes technical information on moonlight photography and detailed moonlight brightness predictions in addition to a large number of images.

February 2006 through March 2008

Webmaster for Torrance Cub Scout Pack 586

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This page last updated July 3, 2007