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Mark's employment with the Planning & Development since 1985 as the Chief Mapping Technician
has enabled him to blend his art and science backgrounds in the
expression of cartography. Familiarity with physical and natural
science processes, cultural, community, and developmental interests,
depicted with design, composition, color use, and perception of
data conveyance are some of the elements of producing maps.
In his personal artwork Mark has worked in landscape painting
with pastels, been a participant in the annual I'Madonarri Chalk
Painting Festival for 11 years, and produced prints from lino-block
and silk screen. His current artistic passion is now concentrated
in photography.
While photography in the form of field and aerial photography are
used by Mark in his work for mapping and illustration of technical
documents and reports at Planning & Development his personal focus
is currently a blend of astro and landscape photography. Photographing
the Night Sky with unusual arrangements of the Moon, planets, comets,
meteors, eclipses, in most cases composed with wild and remote landscapes
or with familiar or interesting architectural structures.
Mark received an award in a photography contest at the University
of California at Santa Barbara in 1997 for photographs of
the Hale Bopp Comet. In addition, his photos have also appeared in Astronomy
magazine.
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