About Steve Arcone
I was born in the Bronx and raised on the west side of New York City’s Greenwich Village. After I graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School, I attended Cornell University where I graduated with a B.S. and MEE degrees and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in geophysical exploration. I’ve spent four years designing radar antennas (which work just like camera lenses), and 42 years at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (USA CRREL) in New Hampshire, retiring in 2016. I used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) throughout most of my career to investigate permafrost, sediments, glaciers, and ice sheets. Consequently, I have been motivated to understand how their many awesome, fascinating, aesthetic, almost abstract, and often mathematically intractable structures, as revealed in my GPR images, evolved. In turn, this fascination led me to photograph these structures where and when possible, seeking to merge art and science, and extract the seemingly abstract, especially images that are difficult to explain scientifically but evoke a memory, thought or emotion Since I retired, I have extended my interest in abstract-appearing structures, i.e., abstract nature, to other topics including ice crystals, oil flows, and spider webs. As with radar waves and geology, these newer interests involve light interaction with smaller subjects. Most images on this site were selected for their abstract nature and for me, their beauty. I explain the images here, but in a gallery I want you to tell me what you see, think or feel.
My Services
I met Steve while helping his daughter-in-law Amanda Arcone set up paid ads for her interior design store, New England Home and Interiors, in Lincoln, NH. Steve is a well-known geologist who specializes in GPR imaging. He needed a website designed to showcase his photography.
Through working with Steve to design his website to showcase his images, I learned a lot about GPR imaging. Visit his site to learn more.