I have been fascinated by the world around me all of my life. I began tearing things apart to see what they were about at an early age. When I discovered I had some artistic talent I began drawing things that caught my interest, from my particular (peculiar?) perspective. Shapes, images, things - as soon as I got a camera in my hands I began capturing images in the same manner.

 

When I look at things I see the subtlety, the minutia, the essence - that is how I know things, I believe that is how we all know things though we aren’t often conscious of it.

 

That is how I prefer to photograph things, from the odd perspective, from a skewed viewpoint, capturing the essence of the image that lets the eye; the mind, play with it and imagine it and complete the picture to give a special personal experience.

 

The raw image is the starting point for further creation and realization of what my minds eye saw. As you look through the galleries you will see that some of the work is straight up and unaltered. At times the original composition captures the scene, the moment, very well. Other times I will rework the image to take it closer to what I saw, to take it more towards what it was, and yet, no more than what was really there.

 

I work in a digital darkroom – starting with images I capture via digital camera and in some cases scanned from film based prints and negatives. The creative process continues from there using tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and a Wacom tablet and stylus.

 

Prints are available in most any size, though some sizes would require cropping beyond the composition of the images that you here. All prints are produced with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper – glossy, semi-gloss, matte, and watercolour paper finishes are used depending on the particular work.

 

Prints produced in this manner are sometimes called “giclee prints”. A giclee (zhee-CLAY) is an individually produced, high-resolution, high-fidelity reproduction done on a special inkjet technology printer. Giclees use inkjet technology, but a variety far more sophisticated than that found in the common desktop or photo printer. The process employs seven colors—light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow, light black, and black--of lightfast (UltraChrome) inks and finer, more numerous, and replaceable print heads resulting in a wider color gamut, and the ability to use various media to print on. The ink is sprayed onto the page, actually mixing the inks on the page to create true colors.

 

So, this is different from a traditional photograph, how long will a Giclee print last, and is it as “good” as a traditional photograph? Archival test results report light fastness ratings of up to 90 years for color prints, and up to 100 years for black and white prints. The quality of a giclee print can rival traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries.

 

 

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