ABOUT

Beginning in the 1960's, an old Ciro-flex (American-made TLR) provided the opportunity to learn something about exposure and "creative control," unencumbered by such features as in-camera metering, autofocus and the inconvenience of batteries. Several Minolta manual-focus systems came next. The old cameras are still fun to use, but most of the images on this web site were captured using a Canon digital cameras.

Image capture is driven primarily by the choice of subject matter, with a view toward achieving a point of view, composition and use of light that will create a descriptive and evocative representation of the subject.

For the black and white images, Photoshop is used to convert the color images produced by the camera. The goal is to achieve the envisioned image with a minimum of manipulation in Photoshop.