Self Portrait - Tintype

Self Portrait - TintypeI love the process of photography, especially the older ones that were around at the beginning of photography. Somehow the process takes my mind back in time and my photograph goes along for the ride, it looks old, and has the marks of the makers hand, for better or worse. It is contrasty and backward, the blues are white and the reds are black. 4x5 inch wet plate collodion tintype. One of a kind

The oldest haberdashery in Paris

and Bistre inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

with a dash of Charbonnel Geranium Red ink on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

Having grown up in Arizona

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

Still I wanted to make my picture

I simply could not resist these trees I noticed in a park in Copenhagen

Glorious in detail and history they leave me with a sense of amazement and wonder

In the words from a song by my favorite musician " young people don't pay me no mind"

5"x 5" inches on an 11 x 15

I have not been in the studio much during the last 2 years for all the reasons we know

My favorite thing to do while walking around during my travels in Europe is to notice and photograph small scenes that flirt with my attention and make me think about what is inside