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 William E.
Spruance was born in Wilmington Delaware and raised on Selborne Drive – just a
piece down the road from the World Famous Buckley’s Tavern in Centerville,. During
prep school at
Westminster School for Wayward Boys in Simsbury, Connecticut he learned
black and white photography and darkroom development for the yearbook.
While attending college at
Embry Riddle
Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach Florida he began photographing surfers on the
beach and became a color photographer for the yearbook. In 1971 He moved to Fort
Lauderdale, Florida to fly co-pilot on a LearJet for a private
owner. Through his travels to the Southwestern United States he developed a great
appreciation for the natural beauty of this area.
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 In 1978 he became a member of the Lauderdale Yacht Club and in 1995 he created and
developed a web site (www.lyc.org) for the Club that
required photography of numerous sailboat races and regattas. At the same time he began to
compile his personal photography into his photo gallery web site at
www.spruance.com/gallery.htm.
His duties as a Webmaster required him to travel to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the
largest computer convention in the world (Comdex)
annually. This opened up some great photographic opportunities in both Utah and Arizona.
His first professional photography workshop was the Great American Photography Weekend
(www.gapweb.com) at Olympic National Park in Port
Angeles, Washington. Cliff Zenor gave valued instruction on Landscape, Seascape and
Wildflower photography. In November 2002 he attended
Fotofusion at the PALM BEACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE in
Delray Beach FL.
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 In September 2004 he
attended the
Digital Landscape Workshop Series in Vermont
with Moose Peterson and
Vincent Versace
and
Rob Sheppard
Editor of Outdoor
Photographer and PC Photo Magazines.. This
workshop was for digital photographers that were
using Epson 2200 printers. The digital photography
proved to be more enlightening than the fried Epson
2200 printers.
In May of 2005
William attended Florida's
First Coast Birding and Nature Festival in Saint
Augustine FL. Workshops were led by
Rick Sammon
(author of 23 books on photography),
Kevin Karlson
(Noted Shore Bird Photographer)
and
Rob Sheppard
(Editor of Outdoor
Photographer and PC Photo Magazines). This is the
third year for this festival that is growing by
leaps and bounds every year.
William served as the President and Webmaster of the
Broward Camera Club
from 2004 to 2009.
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The equipment used in
all of his photographs were taken with a Canon
1D Mark III and Mark II, Canon
10D, Olympus C-50 Zoom, Pentax
Pz-1p,Pentax Spotmatic II and a Pentax ZX-10 (MZ-10).
William has been
published in the following publications:
Sailing World,
Sailing
Magazine,
Southern
Boating Magazine,
WindCheck
Magazine,
Points East Magazine,
The Catalina
Mainsheet ,
The
Lauderdale Yacht Club Mainsheet and The Storm Trisail Club Magazine.
William currently resides in Fort Lauderdale and continues
to pursue his interests as a photographer by giving lectures on
Photography 101, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Manual exposure for best results.
He has served as a photography judge in the South Florida area since 2005. If you would like to get in touch
with him please e-mail him at
spruance@spruance.com.
His favorite quotes:
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory."
"Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't
carry memory cards."
"If I had known I was going to live this long I
would have taken better care of myself!"
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