A Few Life Highlights of DeLoyd J. HJuenink...

DeLoyd holds an art degree in dimensional art and a business degree in Marketing from Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.  He began his art career as a painter and metal sculptor, then expanded his media experimentation into wildlife and free form wood carving (he holds a number of blue ribbons in carving in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.) In addition to his love for photography, he is also a painter, poet, glass blower, wood carver and furniture builder.  After co-founding an advertising agency that grew to a staff of over 60, Huenink entered the ministry, and served as pastor of a United Methodist Church before “retiring.”
Huenink has taken pictures of the world around him for many years. He is convinced beauty and unique views of life surround all of us, but most of the time we do not take the time to see... When we view our surroundings through the lens of a camera, we see nature in the raw, but more importantly, we see life lessons about ourselves in almost every shot. You can read some of his philosophy as you read the captions on many of his photos. Some tell a story, some educate and some philosophize...His camera travels with him most everywhere.  DeLoyd and Susan, his wife, are retired and live half time in Costa Rica and spend the other half traveling or at their home in St. Petersburg, FL

My Artistic Statement

A camera is an artistic enigma. Some say a photograph is not art...That a camera can only capture what is already there. And they are right. The difference is what the artist helps the camera see...All artists see things others do not...that is what makes them artists. Yet the photographer is limited like no other artistic form...the photographer must capture what is actually there...the photographer does not have the freedom to capture only a part of reality...the photographer cannot take a picture home and then recreate a fictional account of reality...the photographer cannot add missing parts from their imagination to another scene. My dream and my goal?...to present reality in a way that is not seen by many, to allow the mundane to became amazing, to allow a play on the senses of the observer and to allow small, often forgotten things to become real and important.       DeLoyd