Shooting fine art is a process were I revisit my foundations in photography and explore creativity.  These works represents a place in time in my evolution as a photographer on this planet.  At times its a place to reveal my state of mind and  sometimes it is a place to explore what I have learned.  My photography is true with my life and a continually evolving place that is uniquely mine.

The Chew Toy project for example was an extension of my research into learning about the early photographic masters and their processes.   Edward Weston was one American master who made large format images with an 8 X10 camera and made exquisite contact prints of objects, people and scenes.

The "Chew Toy" portfolio is a result of that influence. All the images are 8 X 10 contact prints.  The large negatives are hand processed in PMK Pyro and the prints are made on Kodak AZO contact paper developed in Amidol.  This was the closest I could get to replicating Weston's early process.  

The "Stack" (freeway construction) is an exploration into the zone system.  Ansel Adams perhaps the most famous photographic master who amongst other things created the zone system.  The zone system is a process in which a photographer can evaluate a scenes tonal range using a hand held light meter.  Through pre-visualization and calculation the photographer can obtain consistent results in the negative and final print.  The stack images are an example of that exploration and process.

With this knowledge in hand almost all of my fine art work is based on these principals.  Large format, hand processed film with a foundation in the zone system.  All of my large format negative are now scanned and printed digitally.