Herb Chong Sold at Auction Prices

I have lived in the Lower Hudson Valley for more than twenty years and seriously photographing in this area for about ten.

I began photography back in high school, more than 30 years ago. Much of that photography was of people around where I grew up. It slowly changed over to landscape and nature. In later high school and college, I did a lot of journalistic photography. After college, I practically stopped. Buying a digital camera in 1998 rekindled my interest and I shot that exclusively for almost a year, upgrading to a better digital camera as my skills improved and my requirements increased.

After a brief but intense re-acquaintance with film as I began to sell my photos to local publications, I resumed shooting all digital when the first affordable digital SLRs came on the market. I've been essentially all digital since 2003 and have never felt a need to look back.

Most of my early work here has been landscapes but recently it has become more and more wildlife oriented. When the weather and the landscape don't come together, there always seems to be some form of birds around. Good bird photography is extremely challenging and very rewarding as they have so many interesting behaviors.