ABOUT

I've been looking at artwork on a daily basis for almost twenty five years. When I'm not in the  gallery, working with clients, chances are I am off somewhere shooting, applying the lessons I have learned indoors. I have also studied art history, and done my own research, following the careers of artists I admire, for my own edification. I have spent a lot of hours in museums around the world, with my nose up next to the canvases, looking to unlock the secrets of the masters. 

  Long before all of this new technology with digital photography and Giclèe making came about,  I spent endless hours in the darkroom, developing and printing, timing, toning, focusing, cropping, burning, dodging and all that stuff.  The goal of these efforts was always  one thing: to produce compelling imagery. These days, instead of a darkroom, I use software called "Lightroom" and "Photoshop" and "Painter" to create my images. Instead of Microdol X, Agfa Brovira and a Bessler 23C,  I craft my prints using a 12 pigmented ink Canon fine art Giclèe maker. Times change, techniques change. 

 Ansel Adams once said "The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." I agree. My goal as an artist is not simply to take a picture, that is, to record on film or digital media a two dimensional representation of a three dimensional scene. Ansel Adams also said, "Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships." No offense intended here,  he was making a joke about the limitations of the photographic process, and observing that compelling imagery often demands a transmutation of the original record in order that the artist's vision be fully realized. So be it. 

While I am working on the list, Let me share just a few statistics: 

In the six months or so since the site went live, we have served tens of thousands of page views to visitors using twenty seven languages from over seventeen hundred cities in fifty one countries around the world. 

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