About Timepiece Photo Services

Timepiece Photo Services was originally born of pure un-adulterated selfishness on my part. I picked up a "photo habit" while working for our Uncle (Sam) and when I came back to my homeplace I found so much had changed, and not always for the better, that I wanted to catch as much of the old as I could, while I could, in order to keep it all just the way I remembered it. Selfish...

Fast-forward a few years, and I'd decided, with the advent of the www, that I could share all I'd found worthwhile with... well, EVERYbody. The world needs all the beauty it can get and Lord knows we've got our share here. And I've been fortunate to've been born w/an eye that "picks up on" things; be it a scene or some "little" thing I happen across. And for all my adult life I've seldom been without a camera.

Timepiece, as a concept, came to me in the late 70's. And the "motto" holds true. "Every photo ever made is a tiny piece of time frozen to look at" The first public expression of it was my 1st website in the late 80's. That "languished", as they say for a few years and all I could shoot, I added to it with the help of my "webmistress", a lovely Lady named Nancy. She handled the "techie stuff" for me; all I did was shoot. What I picked out, she posted.

     In those days I hadn't the faintest idea what "post-processing" was. I shot slides. The lab processed 'em. A done deal and good all 'round.

    But a few years ago I had a stroke that cost me my whole R side, an' runnin' a camera, w/all the little tiny buttons and twisting things to focus and change
f-stops was beyond me. Then one day as we were killin' time waitin' to go to a concert (Mr. Clapton, as I recall) my Wife steered me into a camera shop and asked one of the salesmen if a digital camera could be run one-handed.  On gettin' a positive reply, she started me in shopping.

    'Long-story-short, we went back th' next week and bought a Nikon D-80 and a monster was (re-)born.

I now know what "post'processing" means and have several programs w/which to accomplish it.

So these days I can capture anything and everything that catches my eye, just like I used to w/film. And since Nancy moved away, I've had to learn to run a website myself. More software... And w/all that, the attending techno-hassles.

But such is my passion for the beauty all around us, that I jus' can't help but shoot it, and certainly want to share it. Hence, the website.

As my health improves, @ least to the point that I can drive again, I'll get into taking on assignments and/or commissions. But for now, the website(s) are my way of sharing this area w/you. And, yes, there are two sites; this one and http://www.timepiecephoto2.com where I share the slide work done over the last 20-odd years. I'll be addin' to both of them periodically, as time permits. The slides have to be scanned and then put thru the same process as the digital stuff and that takes LOTS o' time. So that one won't grow at the rate of the digital work found here, but they'll both grow!

It's my hope and aim to have both sites as repositories of beautiful imagery where one can just rest and enjoy. Sure, there'll be a method where-by one can purchase a print; but the MAIN idea was, and remains, relax and look at our world thru my eyes.

Enjoy!!

H R "Ron" Ingram III
Montross, Va.

PS I'm told I should have a "Privacy Statement" somewhere on the site. Here's my "statement: Any client information, given in the order process or in any form of communication with me and/or Timepiece Photo, will be held in the strictest confidence. I don't "share" your info with anyone or any entity. I certainly won't use your addr. to spam you, scam you or in any way disturb you and your privacy. On this, you have my Word.
Ron Ingram
Timepiece Photo Services
Montross, Va. 2/10/11