An engineer by profession, he has since retired and is devoting his time to his age long love of photography. Born in India, he became interested in photography in high school when he saved up, six rupees (about $1) and bought his first camera – a Kodak Brownie. After finishing college where he received a BS in Physics and Optics and a BS in Electrical Engineering, he headed off to the United States of America where received his Masters in Electronics at the University of Pennsylvania. While in India, he freelanced as a photographer for NBC and CBS for a while.
Starting out as a young engineer, he soon rose to higher ranks in the engineering field ending up as Vice President of Engineering in such well known companies as Bunker Ramo, Lepel Corp. and Pitney Bowes Inc. He retired form Dresser Industries, a subsidiary of Halliburton, where he was Division Chief Engineer for Precision Measuring Instruments, in Connecticut.
He and his wife Ann Marie, have two daughters and a son. Ann and Murth moved to Colorado in 2001, to be closer to their oldest daughter, son-in-law and two grand children.
In the 80’s, while still employed in Connecticut, he was asked by the Chairman of Adult Education of one of the schools, if he could substitute for one of the teachers who had taken ill. This was a photography class for interested adults who aspired to become amateur photographers. His class was such a success that he was asked to become a regular teacher there, for Photography. His class became so popular the there were waiting lists for all his classes. Being an engineer, he was always involved with computers and when digital photography began to emerge in the early 90’s, he just picked it up and started to teach Digital Photography and the early versions of Photoshop 2.5. That is when he was invited to be a speaker at an Annual Conference of the New England Camera Club Council, held at the University of Massachusetts. This conference packs in a little over 1500 photographers, both professionals and amateurs and is considered the largest of its kind in the US. To be a speaker is a huge distinction indeed. His presentation was so successful that he was invited two more times in the subsequent years. Only three others have ever been invited to be speakers, three subsequent years at this conference. At that conference officials at Kodak invited him to become one of their “Field Test Experts” for film testing. In India, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in his home town.
Murth’s photographs have been exhibited in many galleries and shows not only in Connecticut but here in Colorado. His Black and White prints have been compared to such well known photographers as Ansel Adams and Howard Bond. He also does paintings, which by the way, are all done in the computer and printed either on canvas, water color paper or fine art paper.
He teaches Digital Photography and Photoshop at the Longmont Free University, at the Front Range Community College Senior Net and at the Senior Center in Longmont, CO. He also gives private lessons in Photoshop at all levels
