Steve's remarkable true story recounts the dramatic adventure, courageous entrepreneurship, and intrigue in the creation of a breakthrough business in a remote corner of the world, a wonderous place few people have been to or know anything about. There he formed one of the first post-Soviet era joint ventures - a pioneering, expansive, business enterprise with the potential to transform the lives of the people of the Russian Far East. “Floral radiography, even in its 60 year history, is, for the most part, unexplored.In 1992, at the end of the Cold War, Steven Myers became the first American since Charles Lindbergh in 1931, to pilot an aircraft into the Russian Kamchatka peninsula. It’s not unusual for him to create over 700 exposures in one year. Even though he works in the radiology field, he did not have access to the type of equipment to make quality floral radiographs, so he purchased his own specimen radiography unit.

I’ve attempted to create still life compositions that are quite different from the work of other floral radiographers.” Steven is a native of Washington state and currently works full time as a radiology tech doing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Having been involved with traditional landscape photography for many years, the challenges of this alternative technique were many. I have experimented with this art form over 25 years as a radiology technologist. Black and white images have been a part of my daily life since 1971. My x-ray images are a collection of negatives, positives, and solarized images––solarized being partly negative and partly positive at the same time. Visible light is just a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and falls between x-rays and infrared.

“By using x-rays instead of light, an unusual inner vision is revealed, and Nature shows us textures, details, and shadows that would otherwise not be seen.

Cross Winds by Steven Myers