STATEMENT

I straddle film and digital photography. Many of my images are digital prints made from medium format film negatives, and I specialize in landscapes, still lifes and abstract compositions. Much of my work has been described as painterly.

The waterscapes emphasize ambiguous transitions between land and water. I strive to capture the illusion of vastness interrupted by shapes rock or wood. Downplaying its liquidity, water is one of several textures in my photographs. The Cape and Islands, the Maine coast, and Key West, Florida, have been favorite waterscape sites year round. The interplay of ice and water at Halibut Point provides another opportunity for both realistic and abstract images.

I use available light and the choice of color or black and white in my work is purposely indistinct. At times, only a faint sepia works for some compositions, but I have been experimenting with an almost teasing infusion of color, much like our perceptions at late dusk.

Over the years I have been fascinated with rock surfaces which I treat as abstract swirls similar to action painters of a bygone era. These natural surfaces yield authentic and substantive possibilities, the same surface so changing depending on the weather and daylight.

I teach photography in my home studio to small groups of beginning and intermediate camera enthusiasts.