Images by Tomoko Yamamoto (Lightstalkers) http://www.lightstalkers.org/tomoko-yamamoto Tomoko Yamamoto is a native of Tokyo, Japan where she visits twice a year regularly, but her current home base is Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She has a scientific background in that she earned her Bachelor`s degree in Biology (Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1966) followed by a second B.S. in Physics (Bradley University, Peopria, IL 1968) and a Ph.D. in Biophysics (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974). She came to photography after a few years of research and teaching college-level physics. Her turning point was her 1977 photograph of the Cornell campus in Ithaca, New York, which graced the cover of Cornell Alumni Magazine in 1991. Later her impressionist reflection photos and other nature photos were exhibited in Maryland and the neighboring states of Virginia and Delaware. More recently she has started to include music in her career by presenting multimedia shows of songs and photographs with the vocal compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert and her own. She has traveled to Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, UK, etc.) during the summer for the past 16 years and have taken photographs, the themes of which have been mostly driven by her musical and literary interests. <form action="http://www.photoshelter.com/usr-show" method="get"> <input type="text" size="15" name="I_DSC"> <input type="image" src="http://www.photoshelter.com/img/ext/search75x25.gif" align="absbottom" border="0" width="75" height="25" alt="Search PhotoShelter"> <input type="hidden" name="I_USER_ID" value="U00003RcQSBSASOg"> <input type="hidden" name="_ACT" value="usrSearch"> <input type="hidden" name="I_DSC_AND" value="t"> <input type="hidden" name="U_ID" value="U00003RcQSBSASOg"> </form> en-us Snakes, Finzel, Maryland: Decayed barks form like several snakes <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/331868/snakes_large_small.jpg' /><br />Snakes, Finzel, Maryland: Decayed barks form like several snakes<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/331868'>Snakes, Finzel, Maryland: Decayed barks form like several snakes</a> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:06:03 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/331868 Curves and Lines <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/252130/Curves_Lines_500_small.jpg' /><br />Curves and Lines<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252130'>Curves and Lines</a> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:26:44 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252130 Fall Streaks <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/252127/Fall_Streaks_large_small.jpg' /><br />Fall Streaks<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252127'>Fall Streaks</a> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:26:39 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252127 <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/252124/Glitters_large_small.jpg' /><br /><br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252124'></a> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:26:34 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252124 Reddish Thing with Tentacles: Reddish reflections in water with a leaf curled like a hand <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/252103/Reddish_Thing_Tentacles_large_small.jpg' /><br />Reddish Thing with Tentacles: Reddish reflections in water with a leaf curled like a hand<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252103'>Reddish Thing with Tentacles: Reddish reflections in water with a leaf curled like a hand</a> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:24:23 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252103 Leaf in Dance: An oak leaf in dance-like motion floating on water of dark-colored reflections <img src='http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/252100/Leaf_in_Dance_large_small.jpg' /><br />Leaf in Dance: An oak leaf in dance-like motion floating on water of dark-colored reflections<br /><a href='http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252100'>Leaf in Dance: An oak leaf in dance-like motion floating on water of dark-colored reflections</a> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:24:17 +0000 http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/252100