Welcome, and thanks for stopping by to take a look at the photographs. Collections currently on view are Pacific, Reef, Tümpisa, Evening, Sandstone and NYC.
Pacific is a collection of monochrome images from the Pacific coasts of California and Hawaii.
Three images in this series feature the beautiful (and impermanent) beach murals of Andres Amador. The first image (“Amador’s Shapes in Sepia”) was recently on display as part of “Monochromatic,” a juried exhibition sponsored by the Chateau Gallery which ran from February 1 to March 1, 2024.
Other photos in this gallery were included in a 2019 print exhibition entitled "Seaside Reef in the Rain and other images." The prints, made with Hahnemühle 308 Photo Rag paper and an HP Z3200 printer, were displayed by the City of Encinitas, California as part of its Civic Art Program. Proceeds from print sales benefitted the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito.
Nikon and Leica cameras and lenses were used to make the photos in this gallery. Filters were made by B+W and Singh-Ray. Camera support tools were from Gitzo, Arca-Swiss and Kirk.
Reef is a series of extended exposure images made in Solana Beach and Encinitas, California.
“Reflection at High Tide” and “Seascape” were selected for “Water,” a juried exhibition at the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont which ran from December 1 - 22, 2023.
The photographs in this series were made with Nikon and Leica cameras, Zeiss, Nikon and Leica lenses and Really Right Stuff camera support tools.
Tümpisa is a place with two names. For gold-seekers in 1849 it was a desolate and forbidding “shortcut" in the Mojave Desert. After many trials and much suffering they gave it its English moniker; Death Valley.
To the Timbisha Shoshone, it is home, and has been for more than 1,000 years. They call it Tümpisa (“rock paint”) after the colorful clay in the valley from which they make red ochre paint.
The photos are a study of how this place, with two very dissimilar names, can be perceived as stark and dangerous, as well as beautiful and life-giving, depending on the viewer’s perspective.
“Mesquite Flat Dunes” in monochrome was chosen by the Maryland Federation of Art for inclusion in its Light and Shadows exhibition which ran from December 15, 2022 to January 31, 2023. A color version, mounted in a custom Koa frame was donated to the organization for its Collector’s Choice fundraiser held on October 22, 2023 in Annapolis, Maryland.
Nikon cameras and lenses, Sigma Art lenses, and Really Right Stuff support products were used in the making of these photos.
Evening is a gallery of images made from sunset until deep twilight. Many of the photos feature alpenglow along the Pacific coast; a colorful cloud feature that appears several times a year, mainly in winter.
Prints of ten images in this gallery were donated to the University of California at San Diego, and are on display in the cardiac wellness center at the university's Jacobs Medical Center.
The photographs in this gallery were made with Nikon film and digital cameras, using Nikon and Zeiss lenses. Camera support was achieved using Gitzo, Arca-Swiss and Kirk products.
Sandstone is a close-up study (made in 2020 and 2021) of the seaside bluffs in San Diego’s Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve.
Prints of the first two images in the series (“Ess” and “Yellow Line”) were made with Awagami Premio Unryu media and were part of the company’s biennial exhibition of etchings, woodcuts, planographs and digital inkjet prints on A4 size washi paper held in the fall of 2021 in Yoshinogawa City, Japan. 1,375 artists from 58 countries participated and it was an honor to be named a “Jurors Choice Artist” at the exhibition.
Eleven prints from the series (in A2 size with custom frames) were on display at the art gallery of the Cardinal Point community in Alameda, California in 2022.
A print of “Ess” in a custom-made American Walnut frame (please see photo, this page) was selected for inclusion in the 30th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Athenaeum in La Jolla, California held from July 30 through September 3, 2022.
The images in the Sandstone series were made with Nikon and Leica cameras, Zeiss and Leica lenses and Really Right Stuff camera support tools.
NYC is a collection of scenes from New York City made with a Leica rangefinder camera and Leica lenses. This gallery features a number of street images, but also delves into architectural, aerial, transportation, and even a few landscape shots from Manhattan's elevated park, the High Line.
The first image in the set (“The Halal Guys”) was selected by The Chateau Gallery for its Urban & Street exhibition which ran from December 1, 2022 through January 1, 2023.
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