Artsphotos showcases fine art, close-up, and landscape photography by Art Shimamura. Art specializes in blending color, form, and design into elegant visual images. His photography tries to intrigue, challenge, arouse or sooth the mind. Art is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

His educational background is in psychology and brain science. He teaches a college course entitled, “The Psychology of Art,” which integrates the visual arts with psychological processes, such as perception, memory, thought, and emotion.

Art's accomplishments as a photographer includes a solo exhibition at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, and various images used as stock photography in commercial publications.