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LeRoy Zimmerman
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From: USA
WebSite: www.leroyzimmerman.com
LeRoy Zimmerman, the northern most member of TWAN, is a panoramic photographer based out of Ester,
Alaska, close to the Arctic circle. Panos are the only format he has used for 41 years. His
panoramas are made up of three horizontal 35mm shots stitched
together, creating a pano with a 1:4 image ratio. He began filming
his panos in 1967 for use in his multi-image production, which he
calls a PhotoSymphony, which is shown nightly to Alaska's visitors.
In 1984 he devised a system to capture the auroras in his pano
format. He discovered he was the first photographer to ever film the
auroras in that format. His theater program is the only panoramic
aurora presentation anywhere, a show that has now been seen by
thousands.
In 1998 he discovered the digital world of scanners, printers, and
PhotoShop. It was a life changing moment when he realized that his
three projected slides could now be stitched together into a single
image. It took this photographer 31 years before he could hold his
first print. Recently he has converted from film to digital. Living
in Alaska, the auroras have become his specialty. One of his aurora
panos was recently used as the header image on a US Postage Stamp,
released October 1, 2007, in celebration of the Polar Year. This was
the first domestic aurora stamp ever issued by the USPS, a milestone of a lifetime for Zimmerman.
Horizontal panoramas are probably the most comfortable images for our
human eyes to gaze upon, as the shape of that format most
approximates that of our natural field of vision. So it was only
natural to film what it really was that our eyes were seeing. Not
only the subject of our vision, but the natural boundaries of our own
eyes as well.
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