Dennis Skelton was born in Logansport, Indiana where he first cultivated his interest in art. He attended
Indiana State University in 1967 where he majored in Fine Arts but soon changed majors to Geology receiving a BS in Geology, MS in
Earth Science, and A PhD in Physical Geography.. He has been teaching Earth Science and developing computer software in remote sensing
for the past 38 years. In 2002, Dennis began re-cultivating his interest in art with an emphasis in Photography which began back in
1967. Most of Dennis’s work was with 35 mm SLR cameras, but in 2004 converted to all digital.
Dennis
views his photographic word through what he calls “The Mind’s Eye”. He noticed in earlier work that what he thought he saw was nothing
like what was reproduced in printed form. He soon realized that the reason for this difference was because a person’s view of natural
beauty is influenced by the person’s emotional energy at the time. “What we see in our mind is not what the film or digital sensor
records”. Through hours of interpretation, Dennis attempts to print on paper what his mind eye once saw.