The Author |
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Warren Paul Harris is a professional photographer, residing in Frisco, Texas. His love of minutia and the arcane make this book what it has become.
What a long, strange trip it's been...
At the age of 14, Mr. Harris was taught the fundamentals of film processing by his father, who learned the discipline while serving in the U.S. Navy during WW II. Processing his own film enabled Warren to explore photography with fewer financial limitations and utilize more creative printing techniques. While living in the Los Angeles area he enrolled in a photography correspondence course in 1970, picking up some valuable film processing and printing techniques as well as learning composition and exposure through his assignments. He bought his first 35mm SLR camera, a Praktica IV-F, in 1970, graduating to Nikkormat cameras and Nikkor lenses in 1973. After the 1971 earthquake that brought Southern California to a standstill, the widespread loss of power (and insomnia brought about by abundant aftershocks), encouraged Mr. Harris to explore time-exposure photography for the first time..
Working as a Technical Engineer for Motown Records and having friends throughout the entertainment industry opened the doors to live performance photography, which proved to be a natural fit along with his exposure at an early age to the psychedelic music scene in San Francisco during the mid—to-late 1960s. This, combined with Warren's background as a guitarist and roadie with The Grateful Dead in 1968, (hence the quote at the beginning of this bio) proved to be a perfect training ground for Rock 'n Roll photography. He has photographed Sly Stone, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Drowning Pool, Ted Nugent, Randy Travis and 3 Doors Down, to name a just a few.
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A Few Words About Volume 1 |
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No shortage of unusual things occupy the vast expanse of land known as Texas.
perhaps one of the most surprising is this life-size painting of The Last Supper, securely tucked away in a barn in North Texas..
You can read the full story about this and some other fascinating finds in the book.
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"There's nothing to see in Texas." an often-heard, yet completely fallacious phrase, uttered by many people who are too busy with their daily lives to notice the beauty that surrounds them throughout the Lone Star State.
If you keep your eyes open and adjust your awareness, the largest state in the "Lower Forty-eight" will surprise and delight you every single day. If you approach your surroundings like a four-year-old, you will find your environment (wherever you are) to be rich in beauty and wonders. Texas is no exception. This book is dedicated to exactly that premise..
But wait, there's more... with over 200 images in total, there are many categories and subsets of categories to be found among the pages. Enough to keep you busy for hours discovering things you never knew existed, as well as re-discovering landmarks captured in a manner you never imagined...
But wait, there's still more... we have arranged to partner with Big Thought, a Dallas non-profit that provides funding for local education. Read more about them here. For every book sold, we are donating one dollar ($1.00) to this very worthwhile cause.
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| Clicking on the photo to the left will take you to a representative sampling of the images in Volume 1. 71 photos, spanning all eight chapters of the book are included. |
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