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 Print of the Month competition and past Chair of the Yerba Buena Chapter of PSA..

In 2007 he was elected to the Honor of Associate of PSA (APSA). In 2009 he was awarded the Distinction of Proficient (PPSA).Thirteen of his articles have been published in the PSA Journal, and two portfolios have been published in the British magazine Digital Photo Art. In 2009 he received the Charles Keaton Memorial Award in recognition of his PSA publications. He made a presentation, "Rust, Rubbish, and Reflections" at the PSA 2008 Annual Conference

Joe is a docent emeritus at Point Lobos State Reserve in California, one of the most photogenic places in the world.

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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 was married to Jean for 51 years until her sudden death in 2008. They have three children, Ed, Marti, and Dorothy. Recently Joe developed a condition that makes it painful to walk more than about a half mile at a time, but is still able to shoot by wandering around with a walking stick.