Leping Zha [leping]
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BIOGRAPHY
Leping Zha lives currently in San Mateo, California. His passion in photography is concentrated in
grand landscapes and fine natural patterns, mainly with a Pentax 67 medium format equipmet
system but also worked with Nikon 35mm, Fujifilm, Cambo, and Mamiya medium format, and
Cambo, Ebony, and Toyo 4x5 cameras.
Trained as a Ph.D. physicist and working currently as a medical imaging scientist in San Francisco Bay area, Leping Zha worked in black and white when he was in his home country China, and became serious in color landscape and nature photography since 1996, centering his field efforts in a few dedicated and well researched trips, plus many weekend outings every year. He devotes the rest of his time mainly scanning chromes to produce poster sized archival fine art prints on the Lightjet enlarger of Calypso Imaging, Santa Clara.
Leping has learned from masters including David and Mark Muench, Charles Cramer, Bill Atkinson, John Shaw, and John and Barbra Gerlaches. Combining well balanced compositions, quality lights, and strong use of color with attentions to fine technical details, Leping's work has earned numerous regional, national, and international awards, including the 2000 Cemex International Photography Awards as well as Grant Prize of Earth Day 2000 Photo Competition "The Ultimate Image of Earth", displayed in local and national galleries and museums including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., and appeared on book and national magazine covers, as well as in books, calendars, and photographic magazines such as Nature's Best and Nature Photographer to which he is a field contributor. In August 2001 he was awarded the "Artist of Year" title in San Mateo County Fair. He also received two Founder's Awards, one for the best color print and one for the best slide, in PhotoClave 2001 in November.
Leping Zha plans to update his photo.net presence soon, and his new images can be currently seen
in his personal web site at www.lepingzha.com. Leping Zha can be contacted via E-mail at
leping@att.net.
Country: US