A Window Into Autumn

Image © Orah Moore About the Artist Orah Moore began her photographic explorations in Dewitt, New York, as a child of twelve with her grandfather's Kodak Retina III camera.  In high school she acquired black and white darkroom skills, which opened a whole new world to the budding photographer.  In her late teens Moore ventured out to the Colorado Rockies amidst columbine and pine trees that smelled of vanilla.  The mountain vistas that she saw seeped into her veins and found expression in her color photography. Next her visual sojourns took her to California and Montana.  She studied with Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, V.M. Robertson and Ralph Cooksey-Talbott and earned her MA in Fine Art Photography from California State College of Fullerton studying under Eileen Cowin and Darryl Curren.  Her Master's graduate show “Stewards of the Land” was from a body of work she shot in black and white infrared on a widelux camera of the ranching lifestyle of the family rancher. Moore and her young f