Photo by Tom Mulder

Artist’s Statement

In 2011 C R Cain, Chip to those who know him, completed a life long dream to travel across the USA visiting many of the National Parks in the west. His travels took him away from his Eastern Pennsylvania home in Mechanicsburg to the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert; the first and most Southern national park on his itinerary. His travels included two visits to the California Coast, including the Redwood Forest and to the Canadian Border in Glacier National Park, Montana. He has slept 196 feet below sea level in Death Valley, crossed over the Continental Divide three times and camped on top of five feet of snow in Glacier National Park after backpacking in with camping gear and an additional 25 pounds of photographic gear. He is passionate about his photographs taken during this trip.

When not gallivanting across the country he is walking the streets of his home town or the streets of Harrisburg PA with photos to prove it. Architectural photos are are a favorite of his along with the natural settings found in Penn’s Woods (Pennsylvania).

For the years between 1995 and 2000 He was editor and publisher of the poetry magazine, Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review. After a very busy and successful run; publishing poets from almost every US state and from over 20 different countries he felt it was time to put aside the editor’s pen. It wasn’t long before he needed another expressive outlet and since photography was a hobby of his in the seventies it seemed only natural to pick up the habit again.

He has worked to improve his photographic skills, always with an eye toward the creative rather than the technical. In April of 2011 his photograph of a Sunflower Bud was juried into the Art of The State exhibition at the State Museum in Harrisburg.

C. R. Cain (Chip)

2006 “Green Abstract” was selected to accompany an article in AmericanWay magazine about eyesight and how it works.

Web Images
2007 “Water Lily” was selected as the accompanying photo for the poem “Blue Lotus” by the Chinese poet Yunhe

Memberships
Harrisburg Camera Club since 2008 (current webmaster)