Loretta and I
have been married for over 44 years. Our family consists of two
sons and three grandchildren. When our sons were young we wandered
the west in our camper with our boys lying on the upper bunk
watching the changing scenery. They traveled with us on our photo
safaris and learned to experience the value of wilderness and
wildlife. Though they are not directly involved with photography
the lessons they experienced were not lost in their growing up
years. Our oldest son now manages the lighting and sound at Capital
Christian Center in Sacramento, CA. Our youngest is heavily involved
in computers.
The natural world
holds a treasure of new and wonderful experiences, ones we love
to explore. When Spring arrives there is the treasure of young
animals, and birds chirping for food. The Summer is alive with
flowers and people experiencing the world they live in. Fall
is the season for elk bugling in the forest and salmon turning
red on their silent last swim, or listening for the call of the
geese searching for a resting place. Winter blankets the earth
and for some, is a time of rest.
In the middle
sixties we began blending our love of nature with our individual
writing skills and photographic talents. We started with an 8mm
movie camera and progressed into 35mm still photography and writing.
Our tools are Nikon cameras and lenses ranging from 20mm to 500mmED
along with dedicated macro lenses for extreme closeup photos.
Also, we use a pin registered camera for precision alignment
of multimedia overlaps. We have two PC computers, a Nikon LS-1000
slide scanner and a flat bed scanner. Adobe Photoshop 5 is our
main photo program along with half a dozen other programs to
compliment our software library.
We take pictures
that are alike in structure and view, hence our copyright reads
© Phil & Loretta Hermann. Our photography has been in
magazines such as National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, National Geographic's
World Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Americana,
Chevron USA, Petersen's PhotoGraphic, Nature Conservancy, Garden
Magazine, National Motorist, and Audubon Society field guides.
Many of our photographs appear in school books, reference books,
encyclopedias, and photo books, such as Colors in the Wild by
the National Wildlife Federation and The Wonder of Birds by National
Geographic. Our photographic images have also appeared on calenders,
posters and greeting cards.
We have written
articles for Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Cats Pride,
Ranger Rick, Popular Photography, The Weekender, and many articles
for the local newspaper. Over the years we have assembled many
Christian related multi-projector slide and audio programs and
have shown them to audiences of twenty to over a thousand. One
of our AV programs, The Longest Winter, a story of the ill fated
Donner Party has been shown eight to ten times a day for the
last sixteen years at Donner Memorial State Park in California.
Take some time,
enjoy your journey through our Web Pages and come back often.
We will be adding and changing pictures at various times for
your enjoyment.
Contact: PLH-Photos@bigfoot.com
This World Wide Web Page complete
with all photographs, content and intellectual
property cannot be copied without express permission from Phil
& Loretta Hermann.
Copyright © 1998 By Phil & Loretta Hermann all rights
reserved.
