Fine-art photographer Robert Kolbrener presents his virtual lecture Looking at Photographs in which he reviews various bodies of work he’s created throughout his 50+ year career. In the late 1960s, as an amateur photographer of just five years, Robert Kolbrener wandered into Best Studio, now the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, and was inspired by six epically sized and composed Ansel Adams images.

In the following years, Kolbrener attended several Ansel Adams workshops, and in 1977 joined Ansel and Yousuf Karsh in instructing a spring photography workshop. For many years Robert and his wife ran a commercial photography business in St. Louis, Missouri and enjoyed the flexibility that came with it; Two months per year, for over thirty years, he and his wife traveled photographing the Great American West.

Robert Kolbrener continues Ansel Adams’ tradition of “straight photography”. With his work there is no use of computers or multiple imagery; no print or negative enhancement (such as bleaching or intensification); and photographs are created using 21/4 roll film cameras as well as 8x10 cameras.