Welcome

Hello folks, welcome to my world wide web Internet website. I hope you will enjoy looking at my photography on this no nonsense site and return again in the future as I will be updating it regularly. And even more hope some of you will be customers interested in purchasing a photographic print. The photographic technical landscape is much changed versus just a few years ago. I actually started businesses for selling photography in 1990 and 1997 but after getting in waist deep each time, decided to pull out and wait till printing technologies offered more consistency. Instead my career in Silicon Valley has always been a more certain route to a comfortable income. In the past in order to guarantee they could deliver the same quality of prints exhibited to prospective customers, photographers had to expensively order dozens of prints from a single batch of lab printing, then store and care for all those prints till they were eventually sold if ever. Today each time a customer purchases a print, I simply order a single new one from the lab and it comes out exactly like every one before it regardless how long has elapsed. It's a new age today of precise digital printing process control that only a few of the best labs have mastered. The local high end lab I use is the best around serving many of the finest professional photographers across the nation.

What distinguishes my work from the many other landscape photographers? Well first and foremost, I am one of just a few that readily carries heavy 4x5 view camera equipment to places far from roads including backpacking into remote trail less wildernesses. I'm one of the few that have always tried to produce photographs, that as well as is reasonably possible given available technology, represent the actual human visual experiences. Thus none of the gaudy saturated films, warming filters, and contrasty manipulated Photoshop work rationalized (...because its just art isn't it?) that seems to be the status quo these days. I personally would rather produce prints with reasonable fidelity reflecting real moments of experience than prints with creative manipulation and design, regardless of whether or not that makes them less aesthetic or marketable.

I have been involved with processing scanned images with Photoshop in order to produce prints from the early days of the mid 90's when those processes first became available. Thus have long honed my skill at processing scan files to reasonably reflect transparencies on my lightbox beside my computer.

A key factor in capturing exceptional images is knowing the locations of exceptional subject landscapes. Although there are a great many well known public icons we all enjoy visiting, there is also a considerable wealth of landscapes relatively undiscovered in our great remote roadless lands and wildernesses of The West. California is a huge state and I've explored a fair amount of it over many years. For more than three decades I have extensively explored the Sierra Nevada, and for most of that time have been lugging around a heavy tripod with a serious intent to capture its magnificence. Thus I have familliarity of its remote treasures that few might match. And I have long been a student of natural sciences, our plants and animals, what weather, light, and season are likely to produce exceptional images. Not only does this site have images of the prints I market on the home page index, but each image has a full page describing the landscape including what, where, and how it was captured. Trees and wildflowers are described using both common and scientific species names, plus have an indexed table versus image one may browse.

Enjoy reading some of my trip stories that provide insight into the adventure of working in the field. Especially recommended is my recent Spring 2008 Wildflower Trip Chronicles April 2008 feature. Be sure to check my Digital Camera Close-up Slideshows Page that has six slideshows of close-up images including many of our beautiful California wildflowers. The best of those images may also be viewed on my Digital Camera Close-Up Thumbnail Gallery sub-page. Beyond the fully processed marketed images on my homepage index are 64 additional just as strong 4x5 landscape images on the Gallery B sub-page that have yet to be processed and are available for preliminary sale at near raw overhead cost. My Tips, Tools, Information Page has some unique technical information for outdoor photographers. And my Links page contains a selective listing of useful external Internet sites one may always reach from these pages. For additional information you might read my brief bio and an essay on my photography style and philosophy.

Of course all images on this site are under copyright.