" Roses Past" - Polymer photogravure print - Edition 2021

" Roses Past" - Polymer photogravure print - Edition 2021In march of 2020 at the beginning of what we would come to learn as a year of isolation and worry, I went to my backyard studio and made this still life of dry roses. At the time I felt a bit bleak and my feelings came through in this negative. Now that life is on the mend I wanted to revisit the negative using this new process that I have fallen in love with. This is the first larger size print I have made on my new Takach press. This hand pulled

I make negatives

I save them and then

Water Tank - Portland

Plate and paper cutter

a beautiful part of making portrait photographs is the people I meet and collaborate with for the session

Sometime along the way I began to include  figurative elements along with the thing I was photographing and my series " Objects of Beauty" was born

I was on a retreat with some other photographers in my community

I thrive on the connection and collaboration that is the process of photographing people I meet

initiated the project to build Les Invalides by an order dated 24 November 1670

and looking towards the new photographs I want to make

shutter speeds

I know I am not the first photographer to visit Paris and find this beautiful landmark to be so compelling