For example, if you are  interested in learning how to use your camera to the best of your ability you can meet with Ken at a local botanical garden to learn how to take better pictures and then evaluate what you've taken and how to improve it.  See his biography below to show his curent accomplishment and why so many previous customers have been ecstatic with the amount of targeted knowledge they were able to learn in such a short amount of time.

Biography:

Kenneth Smiegowski of Kenneth Smiegowski Studios LLC has been a painter and/or fine art photographer for over forty years.  He studied painting and commercial art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and served a two year painting apprenticeship with Iwan Lotton, a prominent Chicago area artist.

Ken’s oil paintings are held in private and corporate collections.  He has worked with and sold photography in 35 mm, medium format, 4x5 and digital.

His  photographs have appeared in calendars, post cards, coffee mugs, tee-shirts, prints, and guide books in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore National Memorial,  Smoky Mountains National Park,  Zion National Park, Capital Reef National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Custer State Park, Black Hills National Forest, and Devils Tower National Monument.

Ken’s images have appeared in Sierra Club Magazine and its calendars and datebooks, Audubon field guides, Wisconsin Trails Magazine and their calendars and giftware, Lake Superior Magazine and their calendars and giftware, Blue Ridge Country Magazine, Impact Graphics products, Landmark Graphics products, Northwood Press Books and other assorted regional magazines and trade publications.

Ken has lectured at and taught not-for-credit classes (before digital) in nature photography and macro photography at the College of Lake County in suburban Chicago.

Kenneth Smiegowski’s background as a classical oil painter show in his use of color, composition and light.  His fusion of painter and photographer create works not typical of either discipline separately.  The digital photographer side brings the detail and clarity, while the painter side brings the soul and mood.

Ken has numerous collectors who claim to see the painter in him come thru in his photographic art.  He hopes you too will join the growing list of informed and enthusiastic buyers who look for, and are collecting his amazing work.  His work can be viewed at the Crossroads Art Center in Richmond Virginia or at various regional art shows.

Orders can be placed via email or over the phone and can be paid for with check, credit card, Paypal, money order, or cashier's check (after clearing).