Kallysta's Photography

About Bob Kolbrener:          Bob Kolbrener was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1942 and attended Washington University in 1963. His passion for fine art black and white photography began in 1968 when he "innocently" wandered into The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park. Kolbrener was captivated by Ansel Adam's work and has since been fascinated with photography. The next spring, 1969, he was again in Yosemite.  This time he was a student at Ansel’s workshop.  During the next eight years, he attended another Ansel Adams workshop in Yosemite, as well as his workshop in Carmel, California.  In 1974, he was hired by the Ansel Adams Gallery for a summer of teaching photography in Yosemite.  In 1977 Ansel invited him to join him as an instructor. During this same time, Kolbrener and his wife established a commercial photography business in St. Louis, Missouri which was structured to give them the “freedom of time” to photograph in the Great American West.  They wou

It seems like part of Gestalt theory is lines and shapes so that's what I tried to photograph briefly. plan to update this later.