H. Dean Clark Fine Photography

Dean Clark demonstrated an interest in photography as a youngster when he earned a box camera by selling vegetable and flower seeds door to door in the small town of Orange, Texas. Once the camera arrived in the mail, he loaded it with film and promptly climbed a telephone pole to get level with a heavy length of black insulated wire which sagged from pole to pole down the street. Another of his early compositions was created on the Galveston ferry when he kneeled down to shoot through one of the scuppers to frame another passing ferry in the oval shaped drain hole. An early appreciation of perspective or point of view marked Clark's entry into the art of photography.

At the University of Texas he added valuable training in composition by obtaining a degree in advertising. After working briefly in that field in San Antonio, he purchased a quality Nikon camera and "consumed" all the books in the photography section of the library while testing and training himself to "see" light as the camera sees it, and to anticipate the lenses and film types needed to capture the images that he began to visualize. Next he moved to Houston where he sold a seldom used hunting pistol in order to buy his first darkroom equipment. Then having the capability to print his own work, he started his own business and began to acquire advertising and industrial clients, in addition to portrait assignments. Initially under the name of H. Dean Clark, Photographer, and then later as Clark Fine Photography, his growing assignment work allows him to additionally pursue his own personal photographic interests.

Now Dean enjoys virtually every field of photography, from landscapes and wildlife photography to studio creations. Sometimes a "found" scene just begs for him to capture it just as nature presents it. And then at other times it is a challenge to have an idea that requires the total control of the studio.

H. Dean Clark, 2004.