Jim Ruff is an award-winning nature and landscape photographer and a year-round resident of Blowing Rock, North Carolina. I'm retired from a successful engineering career in both industry and academia. Most of my career was in diesel engine and off-road vehicle development and management at John Deere. I also served on the engineering faculty at Texas A&m University and as an engineering department head at North Carolina State University. Being a farm boy, I love nature and the great outdoors and use photography to capture and share the beauty of our world with others.
I enjoy both the artistic and technical challenges required to transform nature's glory into stunning 2D images. Subject matter, location, lighting and composition are key ingredients in photography. I strive for uniqueness in at least three of these elements in my images even if it means pre-dawn hikes to mountain vistas or persevering storms to catch that magic combination of light and weather. I have traveled extensively throughout the United States as well as Europe and the Mideast.
Thanks for visiting my Beyond The Sunrise website. Please subscribe to my Blog to receive the latest email updates on my Wanderings and Wonderings. I also have a Beyond the Sunrise Facebook Photo page where I will upload images without many words. Just click on LIKE on that page to receive postings.
Also, if you are a visitor to North Carolina's High County, some of my images are on display in the Morning Star Galley in Blowing Rock and the Catchlight Gallery in West Jefferson.
Jim
I enjoy both the artistic and technical challenges required to transform nature's glory into stunning 2D images. Subject matter, location, lighting and composition are key ingredients in photography. I strive for uniqueness in at least three of these elements in my images even if it means pre-dawn hikes to mountain vistas or persevering storms to catch that magic combination of light and weather. I have traveled extensively throughout the United States as well as Europe and the Mideast.
Thanks for visiting my Beyond The Sunrise website. Please subscribe to my Blog to receive the latest email updates on my Wanderings and Wonderings. I also have a Beyond the Sunrise Facebook Photo page where I will upload images without many words. Just click on LIKE on that page to receive postings.
Also, if you are a visitor to North Carolina's High County, some of my images are on display in the Morning Star Galley in Blowing Rock and the Catchlight Gallery in West Jefferson.
Jim
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