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September Issue 2007
Charleston County Public Library in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Reid Watts
The Charleston County Public Library in Charleston, SC, will present The Natural Beauty of the Carolinas, featuring landscape and wildlife photography by Reid Watts in the Saul Alexander Gallery, on view through Sept. 30, 2007.
Watts started in photography at the age of twelve, when his father allowed him use of his collection of Leica, Rolleiflex, Zeiss, and Graflex cameras as well as a well-equipped darkroom. A technology perfectionist, Watts has developed techniques that give his pictures their brilliant colors and life-like appearance.
Watts grew up in Switzerland, but his family harks from South Carolina where his great grandfather was the Sheriff of Laurens County. Other ancestors have served as pastors, teachers, farmers and even State Supreme Court Justice in South Carolina. Watts and his wife Therese have made their home Lexington, SC, for the last eleven years, while maintaining a sailboat on Hilton Head Island, SC. They have traveled extensively in the Americas, the Caribbean Islands, Middle East, Europe, the Himalayas, India, and the Pacific Islands.
Some people who know Watts well call him a modern "renaissance man" because of his demonstrated ability to move easily between diverse roles such as technologist (creating one of the earliest versions of the Internet), corporate executive (serving as an senior executive in the computer and telecommunications industries), author (writing a management strategy book), financier (founding and managing a venture capital fund), and artist (not to mention expert sailor and skier).
Watts offers the following about his work, "My art is the result of a lifelong love of photography, computers, and nature. In my images I attempt to capture the beauty of nature the way my mind's eye remembers seeing it. The optics, cameras, computers, software, printers, papers, canvases, and inks are just the tools to that purpose. I know that I have succeeded when viewers of my pictures react with the same awe that I experienced when I observed the scene in nature."
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