
The Nature Gallery
Bloomington, IN
The art of photography has little to do with technology: cameras, lenses, film type or megapixels. Rather, how we see and then use our ‘tools’. For me, how I select elements to be included or left out in creating my compositions and how natural weather and lighting influence colors and shadows in rendering of the image.
My sensibilities take me to a style of photography referred to as the “intimate landscape”, a phrasing ascribed to the late Eliot Porter, a renowned New England photographer. To capture some portion of the scene, letting the viewer’s mind fill in the area beyond the boundaries of the print. This creates a work that is timeless and enjoyed on its own merits, not because of where it was taken but where it takes the viewer.
The majority of my images are recorded using medium and large format film cameras. Most recently my macrophotography is done with digital capture. Easier – still not easy! Though again, not about the technology; rather – the vision.