The Art
This site displays a small sampling of the work I do.
Use the pull-down menu above to view the various galleries.
My work includes portraits, landscapes,
unlikely views of ordinary reality,
and images shot throughout travels,
from as far and wide as India and Nepal, to the American Southwest,
and places I haven't been to yet.
I make (or used to make!) archival fiber-based black & white prints the traditional way,
looking through the lens of a Nikon FE-2, or a Rolleiflex from 1959,
wearing a Gossen light meter hanging by a shoelace around my neck,
and making prints by my hand in a darkroom.
I first learned from my father, who taught me how to use one of the first TTL light metering SLR cameras, the Asahi Pentax Spotmatic;
I learned darkroom work at a community darkroom in Oakland;
I learned studio lighting techniques at the Harvey Milk Photo Center in SF;
I was enlightened to approaches to exposure from Ansel Adams' Zone System, and Henry Horenstein's book, Beyond Basic Photography;
I learned more rigorous approaches to developing film and printing from the San Francisco master print maker, Frank Espada.
if you are interested in any of the images you have seen on my site,
or would like to see other images in my portfolio,
or would like to have your picture taken (I call it PhotoEnquiry),
please feel free to
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