My passion.....
I look for inspiration wherever nature intermingles with the creations of man. My appreciation of historic architecture makes it a favorite subject of mine. Nostalgic old ruins, gristmills, churches, stone bridges, grand old barns, and other agrarian objects lying in their natural landscape always catch my eye. To me, these artifacts are art forms in their own right: someone "way back when" used his/her skill to make something beautiful, and they can teach us a lot about the people and cultures who created them.
Almost exclusively, I take photographs that I can turn into fine art prints for exhibition. And the larger the print, the more I love what I do. This love of beautiful, large exhibition images guides everything I do as a photographic artist.
Creating photographs suitable for large display is a deliberate process. Large prints, when presented well, invite a sense of presence, one that compels a viewer to enter the scene and experience the sights and sounds they find there. Any photographic artifacts, including empty shadows, empty highlights, lack of subject definition, or abrupt color changes will lessen the impact of the story told by a large photograph.
My exhibition prints are very personal to me. I perform or supervise every step in the process: I develop my own color and B&W films, scan my own negatives on a professional drum scanner, personally interpret the image, print the image in my own or my printer's studio, and then frame each piece as required. I happen to believe that each step is critical to the artistic process and deserves my personal attention and skill.
Like virtually all large format photographers, I still use film to enable me to create the type of images that excite me. Elan Magazine in its February 2015 edition expressed my intent well when they wrote: "..his photographs are soothing, serene and tranquil settings that invite the eyes to come in and rest awhile, yet there is an intriguing mystery..". We use film because we find that film alone can capture and retain the delicate details in both shadows and highlights that are so critical to preserving and enhancing a sense of presence in the large exhibition photograph. Film lets us capture more beauty from the scene so we can present that beauty in our fine art creations!
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