Personal Data
- Tom Bullock
370 Corralitos Rd
Watsonville, CA 95076
(831) 335–3389
- Stanford University, Stanford, California. 1955—56, Chemical Engineering
- BS United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. 1960 Social Science, Literature, and Engineering
- MS University of California, Los Angeles, California. 1966, Astrodynamics (Engineering)
Professional Experience
- 1998—Present: Self–Employed, Multimedia Artist and Photographer
- 1969—1998: West Valley College, Saratoga, California, Instructor of Astronomy, Planetarium Director
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Platoon leader; Company Commander; Intelligence Officer;
Deputy District Engineer, Sacramento District, California; Resigned from Army with rank of Major
Publications
- Textbook: Astronomy: 2nd Contact, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 1986, ISBN 0–8403–4551–8
- Textbook: Astronomy: 2nd Contact, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 2nd Ed. 1989, ISBN 0–8403–5203–4
- Textbook: Astronomy: 2nd Contact, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 3rd Ed. 1994, ISBN 0–8403–9001–7
- Textbook: Astronomy: 2nd Contact, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. 4th Ed. 1996, ISBN 0–7872–2428–6
- CD-ROM: Stone Circles, A Photographic Tour. The world's first photographic database of over 1600 stone circles/rows scattered throughout the British Isles and Brittany, France
- 2006 Calendar: The Highest Mountains on Earth, Apollo Publishing Co., ISBN 1–932832–12–2
- Book of Photographs: The Eyes Have It. www.Blurb.com Images of people around the world.
Photography Experience
- Course work in creative photography at UCLA, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, SF Art Institute, Friends of Photography (Carmel, California), Ruth Barnard (San Francisco)
- Part-time instructor of landscape, macro and moonlight photography, UC Santa Cruz Extension and West Valley College, 1978 to 1989
- Wedding photographer, 1976 to 1998
Exhibits
- 2008 Open Studios Art Tour© Exhibitor, Santa Cruz, California
- One-Person Exhibit, Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, Sep–Oct 2008
- One-Person Exhibit, Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County Offices, Mar–May 2009
- One-Person Exhibit, Riva Fish House, Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz, Mar–May 2009
- Los Gatos Open Juried Show, Apr 2009: First Place Award, Photography Category
- Exhibitor, Saratoga Rotary Art Show, May 3rd, 2009
- Exhibitor, Santa Cruz Government Center, Ocean Street, Jun–Aug 2009
- Exhibitor, 1st Annual Fine Art and Wine Harvest Festival, Corralitos Cultural Center, Corralitos, Nov 14–15, 2009
- Exhibitor, Santa Cruz Government Center, Emeline Avenue (Bldg K), Dec 2009–Feb 2010
Personal Statement
One–hundred ice cream bar wrappers and a $1 bill got me my first camera at the age of 9, and I have been in continuous possession of one ever since. My earliest photographs are of my elementary school classmates at play or scenes of nature during family vacations at Yosemite Park and Clear Lake. On retrospect, I was on a playful quest to record my life and what was happening around me. It wasn't until I took a class from Robert Heinecken (UCLA) in the mid–60s that I realized there was a creative and “artistic” side of photography as well.
The class changed my life, as well as my renting the apartment beneath the Focus Gallery in San Francisco, from which I monitored and encountered the comings and goings of such idols as Imogene Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, Ruth Bernard, Ansel Adams and Morley Baer; to name a few. Taking classes at the SF Art Institute and UC Berkeley Extension furthered my passion for involvement on the “artistic” side of photography. Focusing on people and nature has been my passion ever since.
I settled on the medium format Hasselblad camera in 1976 because of the superior optics and my goal of creating large prints. From the very beginning, the photographic process has seemed magical to me, and, with the onset of digital imaging, I marvel at the extent to which I can extract from the original image the feeling I experienced when I first clicked the shutter. Interestingly, it never occurred to me that I could make money or conduct business doing photography, it being a purely personal enjoyment without having to think about what others thought or felt about my images.
Nonetheless, I love to share my vision of our planet and diverse cultures with others, either through slide shows or print displays. I am attracted to the exotic: the bizarre landscapes of the Antarctic and the highest mountains of the Himalayas, the tribal peoples of the African continent and the mountain peoples of Tibet and Thailand. I celebrate the diversity of our planet and its peoples and would like others to share in their preservation through my images.
