In my early years I was heavily influenced by the masters of the Group F/64 period. As a result, I made a few attempts at framing larger views of my subjects that gave a better sense of what the subjects full environment was like. However, I feel like my best work has been made by isolating details of my subject (n173, n371). Those two images also show a tendency I have of photographing the interface between man and nature and not just details of the natural world.

During this period, I was also experimenting with different types of light sources. n127 and n128 were both made at night and show a refocussing technique that I was playing around with. The primary exposure of the tree in focus was made with a hand held flash, and then I opened up the lens' aperture all the way, refocussed on the background and exposed for the existing light. The red light in n127 is from my car's taillights. I look on these two images as being not just technical experiments, but as an exploration of the effect of time on an image (color, contrast, focus) just as much as these two images: n231_bw, n233_bw.