Journey all-around globe with Steve Cozad’s photographs at Solano Town Middle Gallery

FAIRFIELD — Neighborhood artists have located myriad approaches to convey “Sea, Winds, Storms and Fog,” opening Wednesday at the Solano Town Heart Gallery.

Retired design manager and 28-yr Fairfield resident Steve Cozad employs photography.

5 many years in the past, when he retired totally, he and his wife, Angie Cozad, started their environment travels in earnest. The pair invested time last 12 months in Iceland. Subsequent 12 months the desired destination is Antarctica.

Cozad’s mother and father worked in the airline sector but the loved ones did not vacation a lot, he explained.

Steve and Angie Cozad took their sons on outings to countrywide parks and a few intercontinental journeys this kind of as Costa Rica and Egypt. It was the latter trek that gave the younger men the travel bug.

The two are now included in artistic artistic endeavors, pictures and unique outcomes.

Now, empty nesters, the pair can established their possess schedules when it comes to travel.

The few was in Chile in March 2020 and “barely made the very last plane out” as Covid-19 struck around the globe.

“We acquired again to the United States prior to anything was shut down,” he said, including they had been pursuing Covid-19 news and were in a position to total the journey.

Cozad believed he was about 20 when he obtained his initially camera.

“I always appreciated to choose shots,” he stated. “It was more a documentary issue.”

He shot slides most of the time. Just after they were being created, he would go through them and scan the pics he preferred.

“They have been not truly very good top quality,” he claimed.

But they instructed the tale.

Cozad went digital in 2007. At the identical time, he began to devote extra of his time to photography.

“The age of electronic opened a ton,” he reported. “It allowed me to incorporate an inventive facet.”

Cozad learned from YouTube films and enrolled in some online seminars in Lightroom.

He’s a short while ago begun printing his very own shots. He’s also located a terrific process for narrowing his options. The determination is not produced in haste.

“Certain types I start off to figure out far better than other individuals,” he explained, demonstrating with a black-and-white image…