About
My Photography
Photography is how I see the world, a narrative of events I choose to remember. It is all about sharply defined instances and the vagueness of memory.
Everything in these galleries is recent and entirely digital, captured in the moment with my Nikon.
Some of my favorite images were snapped up in a minute. Quick reactions, reflexes that surprise me—moments I might not have noticed without my camera strap wrapped around my hand. Others are almost planned... a snowy egret that will take flight, sooner or later, finally floating toward me for what seems like hours. It is over in an instant, but I wait.
A few have taken real premeditation. Scouting the path of the sun. Moving my tripod obsessively—a few inches to the left, then right. Waiting for the perfect light, the best position of the moon, the least distracting shadow.
And sometimes I just have to wait for the wanderers, fellow travelers unaware of my impatience, to move on.
My Digital Darkroom
My images are processed using Photoshop in the CIE Lab Color space that, unlike the better-known RGB, separates luminance from color. It is an extraordinary color space known for both its mathematical precision and wild, nearly unpredictable swings into impossible, imaginary colors that could never appear on a monitor or a printed page.
History
In the early seventies, I showed black-and-white prints in Chicago galleries. I carried a Leica M2-R with a collapsible 50 mm Sumicron, and took light readings off the back of my hand. The galleries are gone. The Leica was lost in a flood, along with all of my negatives.
I moved on to 3D. My camera of choice became an old Busch Verascope. I shot and mounted thousands of slides. Today, my images are all digital, shot with Nikon cameras and lenses, processed with Photoshop on Apple computers.