Full Circle’s founder, David Orbock, is a professional fine-art photographer whose specialty since 1981 has been medium and large format panoramic photography of cityscapes and landscapes.
During the past twenty-nine years Dave has photographed many major U.S. cities, small towns, and the countryside that surrounds them. He has also spent considerable time hiking and photographing National Parks, Monuments, and Forests. During the past five years Dave has been to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, camped in the Sonora Desert, trekked the shores of Main, Oregon, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and scaled several fourteeners in the Colorado Rockies.
During his frequent travels abroad, Dave has amassed a large collection of images from many parts of the world. Areas photographed include most European countries, Mexico, China, Africa, South East Aisa, and South America. Dave climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania twice and photographed the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. In 2004 Dave climbed Cotapaxi in Ecuador and hiked the Inca Trail from Cuzco to Machu Picchu.
Dave was a guest lecturer in the People’s Republic of China in 1988, the first artist to represent Maryland in a cultural exchange program with the sister state of Anhui Province. Dave is represented by museums, galleries, and art consultants throughout the United States. Recent exhibitions were held in Chicago, Baltimore, DC, NYC, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, and West Virginia. His work was also part of a show that originated in Finland and traveled to Prague, Estonia, and other parts of Eastern Europe.
Dave is currently the President of the International Association of Panoramic (IAPP). He works from his Baltimore studio with a small staff of dedicated professionals who ensure that the printing and framing of his work are of the highest caliber. Dave can be reached at dorbock@fullcirclephoto.com.
Ruth Nuhn graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1982 with a BFA in Photography. Her experimentation with the color Xerox process during her senior year led to a group show entitled, “di-ver”gence: the use of color in photography” at the former G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery in Baltimore.
The artist has continued her involvement with the photographic process as a photographer and a custom framer and designer. Ruth worked with noted Baltimore photographer, Susie Fitzhugh, as a custom Black & White printer for three years. She has been an employee at Full Circle for sixteen years as head of the custom framing department. Ruth shares her in depth knowledge of archival framing with local artists and provides tips in Full Circle’s monthly newsletter. She also helps Dave manage the studio when he is traveling and shooting panoramic photographs.
In 2002 and 2003 Ruth traveled to Germany and Great Britian where she found the old world architecture and its inherent details intriguing. In 2005 she accompanied Dave to New York’s Central Park to see “Christo’s Gates”. The images from these trips were all captured on film, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, and framed for an exhibit in 2005 at the Chameleon Café. Contact her: ruth@fullcirclephoto.com.
Brian Miller has nearly twenty years experience in photography and imaging and holds a BFA in Photography from Tisch School of the Arts in New York and an MA from Manchester University in the U.K. He joined the Full Circle team in 2010 and is now Print Services Manager. He is an excellent fine art printer in both B&W and Color. As an artist, Brian exhibits regularly both locally and nationally. He is a world traveler having spent much time in China, England, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. Though he brings back his photography from the places he travels, he is often led on new adventures by his quest for good food. Please email him: brian@fullcirclephoto.com.