Bohman's Bio

Marc was born and raised in the small town of Shelley, Idaho. Although, this shouldn't be held against him, it provided the opportunity to explore the west and gain an appreciation for snow-capped mountains, beautiful sunsets, and the distinct smell of skunks.

He spent all his summers avoiding manual labor (pipe moving) by going to scout camp as a scout and ultimately spending six years as a scout camp staff member in God's country at the base of the Tetons. During this time he began playing with photography (term used very liberally) by taking many underexposed pictures of the Grand Tetons at sunset, underexposed pictures of storm clouds, and pictures of overexposed staff members in surprise.

Upon returning from a two year mission to Houston, Texas, Marc pursued numerous degrees and girls, and luckily received one of each. The first was a degree in the very lucrative field of biology, and the second, his beautiful wife Rebecca (and to think some art critics say he doesn't have an eye for shape or form!) Although there is no post graduate work in regard to the first degree, the second pursuit has yielded three children, Nickolus, Jacob, and Emily.

By trade, Marc is a pharmaceutical representative (thus somewhat avoiding the Starving Artist Syndrome), which gives him the opportunity to travel regularly throughout the West and compile a growing stock of images from National Parks in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and others. Ultimately Marc would love to trade in the name tag and drug samples for a career as a (paid) landscape photographer.

Marc's approach to photography has been mostly self-taught with the exception of a summer class at Rick's College, and a crash course in f-stops by his father (he is still trying to figure those out!) Marc tries to be as much of a purist as possible using filters sparingly, mostly polarizer's, and split/neutral density filters. Photoshop is not used for fixing or re-touching, the philosophy being "get the image right the first time so I don't have to fix it. I don't have enough time to sit behind the lens, let alone a computer." Marc shoots medium format 645, exclusively on Fuji Velvia, with a panoramic 617 format on the wish list.