Larey McDaniel
 Larey
McDaniel got his first clarinet and his first camera at about the
same time. His music studies began in the fourth grade at his
Bremerton elementary school. The following year, he inaugurated his
new Kodak Brownie camera on a family trip to Glacier National Park.
He’s been enthralled with both art forms ever since, and created a
professional life that neatly intertwines the two.
He has been taking photos professionally since his college years: as
a student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he served as the
photographer for touring music groups. He has been a member of the
Seattle Symphony since 1961.
Larey cites the rapid evolution of digital cameras and
image-enhancing software as the factor that has most fueled his
passion for photography. “It became much more interesting when the
technology allowed me to do it all myself – and to control what
appears on a print,” he says. “I never liked being in a darkroom.
It’s so, well, dark.”
“Interesting” for Larey includes some rather remarkable manipulation
of images. Some of the photos he shows at the Parklane Gallery in
Kirkland, where he has been an exhibitor for the past five years,
are the result of what he calls “stitching together” multiple images
of the same landscape scene. The process, he says, provides the
resulting photograph with many additional pixels of information,
allowing for much greater depth of field and capturing scenes that
more closely mimic all the detail that can be absorbed by the human
eye.
More of Larey’s photos can be seen on the website he maintains for
his musical and photographic pursuits:
www.mcdphoto-music.com
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