Colin Shawhan on Fstoppers

Chautauqua Hills Dental Center

Photographer

I am a dentist. It is often said that when I am not officially "working" in my office I am "playing" and that is great. True success is being payed to play, or to do what you love almost all of the time.

Photography has really pushed my dentistry in new directions and vice versa. I'm able to envision what I want my work to look like in greater detail than ever before, and my photography has benefited from the almost microscopic nature of what I do.

Thinking in different scales is really fun for me, making the really small look big or vice versa is not only fun but important. How does the world look to a bacterium? That's important for me. I like to think that technology allows me to unloose the constraints of being roughly 6 feet tall. Instead I can peer into a telescope or view the world as stretched out in time. It's all just yummy brain food to me.

Gear Bag

Nikon D5500
Nikon AF NIKKOR 50mm