about Bryan D. Spellman

Born in the first half of the last century, Bryan has had a camera in his hand most of his life, moving from a Brownie box camera, to an Instamatic, to his father's Kodak 35 mm rangefinder, and on to Single Lens Reflex film cameras--a Russian Zenit, an East German Praktika, and finally a Japanese Pentax ZX 50. In 2006, he decided to give digital photography a try and bought himself a birthday present in the form of a Nikon Coolpix camera. That experience was so enjoyable that his Christmas present to himself that year was a Nikon D80 digital single lens reflex camera, with a large assortment of lenses. In 2014, his partner gave him a D7100, and Christmas 2017 brought a D810. Once hooked on digital photography, he never looked back. Bryan's main focus is landscape photography, but he takes the occasional excursion into photographing wildlife, architecture, and classic cars (of which he owns a few). Other interests include cooking, playing in and on the water, weaving, making music, and reading. He's happily retired after a career as an administrator at The University of Montana. Photographic projects include 115 Miles (a view of Montana Highway 200 as it crosses Sanders County), Glory of the West--A Photographic Portrait of Montana's Fifty-Six Counties, Evergreen--A Photographic Portrait of Washington's Thirty-Nine Counties, and Gem of the Northern Rockies--A Photographic Portrait of Idaho's Forty-Four Counties.