Kirk Shorte

Kirk Shorte got hooked on photography as a child, when he found a discarded Brownie camera in his grandfather’s attic and attempted to capture twinkling stars on film. While he learned the basic rudiments of professional photography as a teen ager and shot through the years, a Silicon Valley technology career consumed most of his energy until ten years ago. After moving to Kona and finding himself surrounded by visual gems begging to be captured as permanent images, he started attending workshops and studying to become the artist heis today.

Kirk’s work focuses on unique and iconic Hawaiian vistas as art – from the detail of a plant to the spectacle that is a rare sunset to the panorama of a star-studded night sky to native culture.

You can find his art displayed at the Rumley Art and Frame Gallery in Kailua-Kona and a recent photo was included in the National Geographic’s Voices Bioblitz. In addition, his photographs have been used as cover art for three books.

Kirk’s exhilaration transmits from mind to image when he brings what he sees to life as art, to share it with the world. He invites you to explorehis gem-discovering art adventure.