Duncan Whitaker, a fine art photographer, works primarily with intimate landscapes and close-up images, including floral studies. Through the use of shapes, textures, color and light, his photographs isolate scenes or subj ects of particular visual interest and offer the viewer a different way of seeing the familiar. Whitaker's photographs depict the scene or subject as it was composed in the camera and captured on film when the shutter was released without alteration of the final image.

Whitaker has photographed throughout the United States and most often photographs out of doors with natural light and color transparency film. He has had solo exhibits in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Maine and has participated in major invitational photography shows. His work is regularly exhibited in the Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD, and the Boothbay Art Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

An exhibit of Whitaker's fine art floral images entitled NATURE'S DESIGNS will be held at the Brookside Gardens' Visitor Center, Atrium Gallery, from February 16, 2008 to April 27, 2008. The exhibit will be open to the public daily 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.