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Bruce Winterbon - Photography, Stone & Woodwork
 

Bruce Winterbon is a retired scientist, separated, and living alone. Much of his time is spent either in his basement workshop or wandering outdoors, often with a camera.
His woodwork includes both turnings and other things, the latter including, for example, wooden earrings, the ocasional set of display shelves, small tables of his own design, and mobiles. Usually he tries to take advantage of special figure in wood, e.g., "tiger" and crotch figures, especially in maple. Recently he has started to do some turnings in soapstone.

His photography is nature scenes, either landscapes, small views, or closeups of plants. His current work uses a digital camera, and all prints are produced on a computer printer. These include scans of older 35-mm. slides. Framed prints are made with paper, ink, and framing materials for which the manufacturer expects a 90-year life. Cards are made with a high-quality printer on fine matte paper, but of course do not have the same archival quality. Some of his pictures have been used in a brochure recently created by ZEC Rapides-des-Joachims, and his cards are also available at ZEC Rapides, ZEC Dumoine, the gas station in Rapides des Joachims, The Loon's Nest bookstore in Deep River, and Trailhead in Ottawa. He hopes to create a picture book of the Dumoine River.

Wood Turnings Grey Tree Frog Soapstone Turnings
The flower-shaped bowl in cherry is about 20-22 cm (8-9") diameter. It is turned, then carved. The plate behind it shows good tiger-maple figure. This photo is a favourite. The little frog is getting his day's rest. Because he's sitting on a leaf instead of tree bark, he's chosen to be green for the day. The stone is selected to have good colour. The plate is about 15 cm (6 inches) in diameter.