Photography by Trotter Hardy July 23, 2008

Works by local photographer Trotter Hardy will be on display at the Williamsburg Library Gallery, 515 Scotland Street, through September 14. The exhibition is free and viewable during library hours.
The color images displayed are, in the artists own words, compositions with strong perspective lines; with bold shapes richly colored; and often with a sense of emptiness that hesitates between loneliness and serenity.
Hardy likes to get close enough to his subjects to eliminate non-essential details. Much as a sculpture is a block of marble with the unwanted parts cut away, so a photograph is a view of nature with unwanted clutter left out, he says. I do as much leaving out as possible when first capturing an image but I also crop images relentlessly once they appear on the computer screen.
Trotter Hardy, a former computer programmer, is now a professor at William & Marys Marshall-Wythe School of Law. He teaches Intellectual Property Law and Torts and is also the schools Associate Dean of Technology, in which capacity he spends a good deal of time on software engineering. His computer background proves useful in his artistic endeavors as well.
I often edit pictures with computer software, he says. On rare occasions, a picture will look better to me when it is processed by one or more image editing filters for special effect, or when the color or saturation is pushed above normal. For the most part, however, he says he relies on traditional photographic techniques of cropping and non-special-effects editing to isolate a subject of interest from its surrounding details.
Examples of his photographs, and more information about the artist, are available on his website: trotterhardy.com. For information on the exhibition, contact the library at (757) 259-4070.

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