I believe there is beauty everywhere around us. Wherever we are, somewhere there is beauty to be found, even in the most humble or mundane surroundings. I use photography to capture and illuminate some of what I find in both the natural and human environments, and often at their intersection.
I want my images to be revelatory -- that is, to show the viewer something they had not seen before, or something they were familiar with in a new or unexpected way.
I hope viewers can see an image and feel delight and calm.
As an engineer and a businessman, I am acutely aware of the need for all forms of art and artistic awareness in a world increasingly dominated by cynicism, ideology, sterile intellectualism, and industrialized ugliness. Beauty is something we can choose to see and feel, and by practicing this seeing can we develop our own ability to find and then to create (and demand) beauty and harmony in our personal surroundings. Perhaps my photographs will contribute to your finding and internalizing this beauty, if so I will be very happy.
Photography is heavily mediated by technology, from Daguerreotypes to wet-plate albumen to platinum to silver, and now to digital imaging. Technology itself is not the important thing, only the making of powerful and meaningful images. For over 45 years I worked in silver black-and-white photography in a traditional wet darkroom with cameras and lenses that were 30 to 50 years old. I am now using digital imaging, partly due to the difficulty in getting the materials for silver-emulsion photography and partly for the advantages digital post-processing offers me. These images are the result of that shift.
