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Dale Hoopingarner Art Collections

Shop for artwork from Dale Hoopingarner based on themed collections. Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Artwork by Dale Hoopingarner

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Dale Hoopingarner

Dale Hoopingarner Dale Hoopingarner has been an avid nature lover all his life, starting with early Boy Scout campouts and hikes and continuing with gardening and kayaking today -- and now is also a scanographer.. “I love the scanner photography technique – the way the detail and depth preserves the transient beauty of flowers. I never know for sure what combination of flowers and plants will work best on the scanner, so it is always a joyous act of discovery when a beautiful picture emerges on the computer screen.”

Scanner photography isn’t a photograph, at least not in the traditional sense. The camera is a high-end digital scanner, with the flowers and leaves arranged face down on the open glass of the scanner and the image taken in a darkened room. The picture is then retouched with a computer only to remove any stray pollen or dust, being careful to never alter the original arrangement, preserving the integrity and beauty of the plants. Since the editing is often done at a level of nearly 1/300th of an inch, each picture can take 10 to 20 hours or more to complete.
Because the scans are made at very high resolution, typically 1200 dots per inch or more, the printer becomes the “zoom lens” – the final images can be printed four times the original image size without affecting the print quality, making for some stunning close-ups of flowers and leaves, down to the pollen on stamens or hairs on a stem. Because of the way scanners capture the image by moving across the surface the image is captured with zero spherical or chromatic aberration that a typical camera lens might introduce. Coupling that with a completely flat plane of focus and you have the rich and visually deep images that scanography produces.

Dale’s work has been seen at juried shows in New England. He was also selected as a Featured Artist by West Coast Imaging.