Leping Zha, Ph.D. lives in San Mateo, California, USA. Trained as aphysicist with a technical day job in the San Francisco Bay area, fineart landscape photography has been his second profession. Workingmainly in color with medium and large format film camera equipments,Leping Zha concentrates his passion in grand landscapes as well as finenatural patterns in both western and eastern worlds. Constantlysearching and studying the forms, order, balance, inner relationship,grandeur, and drama of nature, he has been tirelessly exploring tocapture truly magical images with ultimate quality and finesse totranscends the subjects into impeccable art elements, and to integrateboth eastern and western artistic influences into his personal style ofexpression.
Born in an intellectual family originated from a small village in theYellow Mountain foothills, China, Leping Zha worked in black and whiteand exhibited when he was in his home country. He became serious inphotography again in 1995, centering his field efforts in a fewdedicated trips, plus numerous shorter outings each year. He makesannual long trip back to the Yellow Mountains, the exquisite Chineselocation from where the ancient Chinese paintings started, and theplace related most directly to his inner heart and resonant most deeplyto his spirit, since year 2000. A perfectionist in nature, he devotesthe rest of his time mainly scanning and processing his negatives toproduce poster sized archival silver halide and carbon pigment hextoneand quardtone fine art prints to the highest quality available today,which have been available through exhibitions and fine art galleries inCalifornia and Nevada, USA.
Leping Zha has learned from masters including David and Mark Muench,Charles Cramer, Bill Atkinson, John Shaw, Richard Garret, Charles P.Farmer, Richard Lohmann, Yuntian Yu, and John and Barbra Gerlaches.Combining well balanced composition, quality lights, and strong use ofcolor with ultimate attentions to fine technical details, Leping's workhas earned numerous regional, national, and international awards. Thisincludes the 2000 Cemex International Photography Awards and the GrantPrize of Earth Day 2000 Photo Competition "The Ultimate Image ofEarth", displayed in local and national galleries and museums includingthe Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. Hisimages have been selected for book and national photographic magazinecovers, and appeared in numerous books, calendars, and magazines,including Nature's Best, the Chinese Popular Photography, and NaturePhotographer, to which he has been a field contributor since 2001. InAugust 2001, he was awarded the "Artist of Year" title in San MateoCounty, California. He received two Founder's Awards, one for the bestcolor print and one for the best slide, in PhotoClave in November 2001,and "Best of Show", Gold and Silver print award in San Mateo CountyFair 2001 and 2002. His on line portfolios was voted number one atphoto.net in 2002, after their uploading to the prominent internetwebsite. Recently, four of his color prints were selected for theAdvertising Photographers of America (APA) 2003 photo exhibition of top100 prints in San Francisco and appered in the Photo District News(PDN), the prestigious New York City professional magazine. Leping Zhahas also contributed series of images to The AVA Guide to TravelPhotography with Kaith Wilson, the founder of the British OutdoorPhotography magazine authoring, as well as to An Immortal Heritage, agrand collective book of works from the best 140 Chinese landscapephotographers, both published in late 2004. Recently, Leping Zha'sinfrared black and white portfolios has appeared in the Camera Artsmagazine, and received the Black and White magazine's Excellence Award(August 2008 issue).
Leping Zha is curerntly working on two exhibition and publicationprojects, "Mountainscapes" and "Visual Harmony", on which two of theonline gallery categories are named. |
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