Monthly Competition - “Formations”

Currently an honorary member of the society, Muril Robertson is one of our past presidents. He has helped judge one of our competitions each year since 2014. Still living and working in Huntsville, he has freelanced as a photographer since 1985. Muril is retired from professional photo work, but is now working in the defense industry. He has a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, with particular interests in mathematical analysis and geometry. That combined with his natural love of truth and beauty provides a sound basis for his work in photography.

Muril has photographed widely across the United States, and has won numerous awards both in our local community and in national and international competitions. His work has appeared in art museums, magazines, books, corporate reports, advertising, etc. Currently, he has over 100,000 film images in stock and a few hundred thousand digital images.

If you would like some ideas of what Muril might be expecting in the images he sees, he has posted this paragraph on his website murilrobertson.com:

"My goal is to make beautiful and interesting photographs of the world around us. My work varies from pristine landscapes to the whimsical. Forever searching for compositions and subjects that interest me, I strive to create images that are new to me. yet, I must give credit to God almighty, because it is his work that I simply record and manipulate on film and pixels. "