Mr. Martinez has been taking photographs since he was ten years old.

His first camera was a Kodak Brownie, and he developed and printed

his own black and white photos. However, he did not become a

serious photographer until he served in the US Army where he

traveled to Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and

Southeast Asia. During that period, his concentration was primarily on

travel photography. His photographs won numerous awards in US

military service competitions.

After retiring from the US Army, Mr. Martinez embarked on a career in

information technology, becoming a programmer, systems analyst,

software project manager, and college professor. During this period

his photographic interest turned to nature, and fine art photography.

His experience with computers and software moved him from the

chemical darkroom to the digital darkroom. With the advent of digital

photography, he quickly moved to embrace it as his preferred

medium.

Realizing that photography was his first love, he quit his day job and

formed his freelance company, Meadow Pines Photography which

has the Trademark "A Lens on Nature".

He has studied wildlife and nature photography with B. Moose

Peterson, John Shaw, Vincent Versace, Rick Sammon, John Reddy,

and John and Barbara Gerlach and Robert Lerner.

Mr. Martinez works with 35 mm, both film and digital, medium format,

and occasionally with large format cameras. He makes his prints in a

digital darkroom consisting of a Windows-based PC, two film

scanners, and Epson archival color printers.

Last Updated: - 4/2008