Lancia

Photographers Forum 2002

Ripples

Burney Blues

American Library of Photography 2003

Casting Softly

Field & Stream 2003 Photo Contest winner

Lotus Guide

Peter Piatt is a local Chico CA gallery exhibited fine art photographer specializing in creative, black & white and color digital scenic photographs.

His studies of photography started at CSUC during Fall 2001. During his first semester, his print "Lancia" was published in Photographer's Forum: Best of College Photography Annual 2002. Since then, other published works consist of; "Burney Blues": American Library of Photography 2002, and "Casting Softly": Field & Stream contest winner 2003.

His works has been exhibited at Moxie's Cafe and Gallery as well as other locations mostly in Chico CA and Medford OR.

Peter Piatt explains his own work:

My interest in photography started in 1972 with a mail-ordered pinhole camera from Bazooka bubble gum. Price: 50 Bazooka gum wrappers. When I received the photos back in the mail, they all had a reddish tint to them. I still have these photos in my personal photo album.

I had dabbled in photography as most people do, clicking the shutters of several different point and shoot cameras throughout my years. It wasn't until in 1992, when I bought my first SLR camera at the age of 27, a Canon AE-1 with a telephoto lens that I started to "focus" on what was important.

In the year 2000 after several mild heart attacks and a triple-by-pass surgery, I decided to calm my life down some and take classes that would sooth my soul, and to take a photography class that I had always had an interest in.

It was during the Fall 2001 semester at CSUC, I enrolled in my first photography class and learned the essentials of photography. It was then that I took photography seriously. I entered "Lancia" in a photo contest and was surprised to find out that I was going to be published. It was the confidence of my family, friends, and my instructor, Prof. Byron Wolfe, that inspired me to continue.

I have always been interested in scenic photography. I had captured sunsets and scenic views in the past, but never took photography seriously until 2000. I decided to pursue a long passionate adoration for photography, a medium that has always been close to my heart but was never pursued. Scenic landscapes have a calming effect on ones soul and mind, and these tranquil images that I had allowed to pass me by in the past, were just what I needed in my life.

Photography is a tool in which we can capture a moment of time and space. It enables us to represent only a part of a visual experience that we have seen. We only capture a part of the whole. When we click the shutter, we can capture milliseconds of time and see the action before us layered simultaneously. Our eyes and minds can only process visual stimulants within a split second, disabling us from seeing the soft action of water flowing down a stream, or to follow the paths of burning embers of a campfire.

Many times there is so much going on around us, we don't make time to absorb and enjoy the visual stimulants of what is important about that moment in time. We become enwrapped with the constant white noise that surrounds us, therefore, we fail to filter out the white noise and focus on what is truely important.

By photographing these moments of time and space, in a creative way, I hope to influence the viewer to stop and look at the beauty that surrounds us, and enjoy that moment of time and space. By capturing these types of photographs, this enables all of us to take the visual experience with us and have a tangible visual representation of nature at it's moment of time and space to share with others.

Thank you for viewing my images, if you wish to purchase any of these prints, please contact me at ppiatt@pacbell.net