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SUMMARY:The Four Directions - A Southwestern Journey by William Fields -  Z
 oom Presentation - The clubhouse will be open.
DESCRIPTION:\nWilliams Fields Bio\nBill grew up among dairy farms\, orchard
 s and truck farms. This rural environment cultivated his love of nature an
 d landscape.\n\nAt age 8 he got his first camera\, a Kodak Brownie box. He
  was only able to afford to process black and white film. Those early expe
 riences surely imprinted him with a love of monochromatic images and led t
 o his explorations of infrared photography.\n\nWhen Bill was old enough to
  go to college\, the Vietnam Conflict was in full swing. He enlisted in th
 e navy. He served in the vicinity of Israel during the 1966 conflicts with
  Syria and Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan River on an armed e
 mergency squad. He was later assigned to a carrier borne flying squadron a
 s a plane captain. While serving\, He bought his first 35mm camera\, a Can
 on rangefinder. The Canon was night and day by comparison with the fuzzy i
 mages he had been shooting with his Brownie.\n\nAfter his naval service\, 
 he traveled\, surfed\, raced sailboats\, skied\, rode bicycles and motorcy
 cles\, etc. He was the first member of his family to graduate from a unive
 rsity\, finishing with a 3.95 GPA from University of Redlands with a BA.\n
 \nHe worked for over 30 years in aerospace\, laser technology and automoti
 ve industries. Early on he successfully sat for the exam and became a cert
 ified engineer\, although he never attended engineering school. He holds a
  patent for the vitrification of ceramic material using a laser. Throughou
 t this time\, Bill continued to study art and became ever more proficient 
 in draftsmanship\, printmaking\, watercolor painting and of course\, photo
 graphy. After a trip to the Himalayas in 1988-89\, people began asking if 
 his photos were for sale. Until then\, he had always considered photograph
 y as an adjunct to his other artwork.\n\n“When I sold a couple of pictur
 es to Steven Spielberg for set decorations\, I finally began to consider
  myself a photographer.”\n\nDue to his work\, Bill has lived in eleven s
 tates\, settling in Missouri in 1993. He was a self-employed management co
 nsultant for a number of years\, with General Motors\, Boeing and many oth
 ers among his clients. Throughout his years of “bread winning” he cont
 inued to study\, practice and execute works of art. His devotion to art ha
 s been a lifelong pursuit and passion.\n\nToday\, Bill is a full-time art 
 photographer and a published author. His books include Hermann\, Missour
 i – One of the Prettiest Towns in America and his limited-edition T
 he Four Directions - A Southwestern Journey which won first place in the 
 2019 Independent Publishers Awards for Best Coffee Table Book.\n\nHe has t
 hree other coffee table photo book projects that are currently in the deve
 lopment or the proposal stages. He recently signed an agreement to produce
  a book on the Tennessee Whiskey Trail.\n\nBill was honored as Artist in R
 esidence at Fort Union National Monument in Watrous\, New Mexico in 2019.\
 n\nWilliam's website can be found at\n\nhttps://www.williamfieldsartphoto.
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