About the photographer

Michal Lebl, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is a chemical engineer (PhD, DSc) and he works in “small” biotech company in San Diego. He got his first camera from his grandpa at the age of 9 (he still has it), so we can say that he is taking pictures for 46 years. He studied photography with professor Lauschmann in Prague. He started with classical black and white wet process and loved making his enlargements himself. The second camera was his dad's Zeiss "harmonica". Later he changed to SLRs and went through Exa, Pentax, and after he moved to USA 15 years ago, he changed to and stayed with Canon EOS. He is an early adopter of digital photography - through Casio to Sony and back to full frame SLR from Canon.

Michal likes to take pictures of nature, architecture, people, and everything around him. He loves to travel and this gallery illustrates this point.

His first exhibition was in Prague in 1968, and two years later he published his first picture in a magazine. In 2006, his photographs were on display in two shows in galleries in San Diego and Prague. If you are interested in any of his pictures, you can contact him at mlebl@san.rr.com.

Picture 2006 by Tereza Kolarova