Joe Hearst

Joe is retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked as a physicist for 35 years. Towards the end of his career he worked mainly in geophysical well logging. He was a founder and past President of the Minerals and Geotechnical Logging Society. He is a co-author of the book Well Logging for Physical Properties.

After retirement Joe took up serious photography and is a member of the Livermore Valley Camera Club and the Contra Costa Camera Club. He is past President of the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs He administers a study group for the Electronic Image Division of The Photographic Society of America (PSA), and is Director of the PSA Picture of the Month competition. In 2007 he was elected Associate of PSA (APSA).

Joe is a docent emeritus at Point Lobos State Reserve in California, one of the most photogenic places in the world.
Ten of his articles have been published in the PSA Journal, and two portfolios have been published in the British magazine Digital Photo Art.

Three of his images have been selected as the PSA Print of the Month and he tied for first place in total points in the Star Color class in the 2003 PSA Print of the Month contest. He has also earned three stars in Small Prints and two stars in Electronic Imaging at PSA International Exhibitions . Joe has studied with, among others, Freeman Patterson and Richard Martin, and has been greatly influenced by the work of Ernst Haas.

Joe lives near San Francisco, and has been married to Jean for 50 years. They have three children, Ed, Marti, and Dorothy.