David Ruether's photography had a few halting beginnings, starting
with using an Argus 75 snapshooter and doing a little B&W processing
in high school, followed by experimenting with a little slide shooting
while in architecture schools, and making an attempt to document a US
cross-country trip. A bit of architectural and other types of photography
followed, and he soon gave up architecture for photography. Before long,
he had shown work in many museums, and a couple of magazine articles
were published on his photography. A few museums bought prints, and one
published a small book of his photographs. He taught photography part
time at an upstate NY women's college for several years, and also was
a commercial photographer (which he calls: "a self-unemployed member
of the leisure-poor class"). David gave it all up for several years
while exploring audio interests, but then returned to photography about
a dozen years ago, and now does architectural, college-catalogue,
portrait, publicity, stock, aerial, and wedding photography - anything
on-location, but no studio-type work. "Aht" photography still lurks in
the background, and video beckons.... David Ruether on lenses:
"Poor lenses can be used to make fine photographs, but how much more
fun is it to use good lenses and not need to find ways around their
shortcomings".