about this portfolio

As opposed to a traditional portfolio that's focused on a specific section of a body of work, this one is very much an overview of everything that I've produced over the years. It's a small sampling of the total number of images that I've made, but I think that it's a pretty good representation of how I've been looking at and thinking about the world over this period of time.

The two sections of the site, Structures and Nature are broadly defined. Photographs in Structures are essentially of man-made objects while images placed under Nature are of subjects that are not man-made, generally speaking. No portraits are represented on the site. For me the category is very narrow and, because of the few presentable images that I've made, doesn't really merit being treated chronologically as I've done with these two categories.

Regarding the technology used in making the images, up until 2008 I was using film exclusively to record my images. So far, only two images in the portfolio have been made with a digital sensor (ad_1, ad1287_bw). Beginning in 2008, I very slowly started experimenting seriously with digital capture.

Regarding darkroom technology, I have used a computer for all of my post-capture work since about 1997. Before that, B&W images were either made as negatives and printed in a traditional darkroom or, usually, they were direct positives made using the Tmax Direct Positive process or Agfa Scala B&W transparency film and, when printed, printed as Cibachromes. Also printed as Cibachromes were the color images in the portfolio, which were shot on color transparency film. Since turning to the computer, I print all color images as C-prints and B&W as either C-prints or archival pigment prints.