What I do, what I try to do, and why I do it.

Like many people, my interest in making art started in childhood, but I didn’t fully embrace it until, bored beyond description in a nothing-job, took a few filmmaking classes. Cinematography was the key that fit the lock. Photography followed as a hobby to teach me the skills of exposure, framing and all the other technical bits of translating light and shadow onto film. Thirty years later, photography still thrills me.

Translating light, shadow, color, and geometry onto a two-dimensional print offers so many opportunities to share a mood or story. Changing just one of those elements shifts the perspective for the viewer, hopefully creating something pleasurable and unique. In this way, sometimes a picture of a sunset isn’t a picture of a sun setting, but it is made from all of the elements of a sun setting. That’s what I hope to achieve, in the same way Edward Steichen does this in the brilliant “The Flatiron.” https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267803. Good luck to me. I’ll need it.

The photographer is also a step in the process of creating the final work. We express something of ourselves in each work, right down to how the light physically passes through our eyes. And then there’s my interpretation. I’m not so much capturing a mood as I am creating one. I’m not always successful, and I always need an audience to measure success. Your welcome interpretations play a role.  If the art is in the interpretation and expression, then your interpretation is welcome and necessary as well. It is not art until everyone gets their say.