Your Claim To Frame

Shortly after purchasing my first manual camera, I discovered the bulb setting and fell in love with long exposure photography. My maiden attempts involved trying to write my name on the negative with the moon as my pen. I’ve always been most excited and at peace while out-of-doors. So it followed that nature was the theme in many of my early works.

Given that photography is essentially painting with light, I take it one step further by combining my love for nature with long exposures. Subjects and locations are selected to achieve optimal lighting conditions. The main light source of choice in the images is pre-dawn sky light. Then, with a steady hand, the subjects are highlighted, which leaves voids where intended darkness is desired. Quite literally, I paint the scene with a luminescent brush stroke. This lighting technique has recently transitioned over to photographing human figure studies.

I have chosen the digital camera as my instrument, and although there are many options to manipulate images, the focus of creativity is achieved while the shutter is open. All of the images are printed with archival inks on archival paper.

In mid 2004, a gallery in the Philadelphia suburbs sponsored my debut. This successful show opened the doors to two other galleries for my work in November. It is a fervent hope to have audiences view the images through my eyes and to feel my passions for painting with light.


#8 Posing Male	#2 Posing Female	#5 Posing Female	Mantis

Handtinted Bermuda	Shipwreck	Cliff (Untitled Cape May)	Above Land and Sea

Sunflower and Blue Sky	Red Rock	Illuminated #10 (Leaves on Fire)	Forgotten Rails

Hats for Sale	Abandoned	Lone Horse	Black and White Boathouse Row

Dead Wood	World's End #6	Multi-armed Nude	Nude with Roses

Nude with Rose