In 2018, Henry Rinne retired as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida, after a forty year career in higher education. His interest in photography began when he watched prints emerge in the developer in his father’s dark room. Black & white has always been his primary focus in landscape, nature, and portraiture, but he loves to find dramatic colors in the landscape and has started experimenting with infrared. Rinne has exhibited in Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, California, and North Carolina. His work has been published in books and magazines including Downbeat and Lenswork’s Our Magnificent Planet. He considers the wet darkroom to be a wonderful learning experience, but digital has supplanted any interest in “souping” film and having hypo-stained fingers.
By Henry Rinne | Travel Photography
The country churchyard is at once universal and unique in the Christian world. They exist all across Europe and North America, providing an air of quiet contemplation and reverence in small villages and major metro areas. Novels have been written where the churchyard plays a significant role and, in some books, becomes one of the […]
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Driving through this colourful fall landscape creates many photographic opportunities, but also asks an important question : life or swan song? Fall colors have always presented an interesting dichotomy in terms of my photography. On the one hand, color has always represented life and energy. Isolating colors in photographs leads me to create marvelous, […]
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