"Light and Shadow" Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

Thank you for your interest in my work and for your support. To contact me for any reason, for example to discuss custom framing or to ask about sizes or surfaces not currently shown here, email curator@saatchiart.com. I welcome your questions and comments.

I offer each title in three size categories: small, medium, and large, on three surfaces: archival fine art paper (not mounted or framed), face-mounted behind Plexiglas/acrylic (ready to hang with included hardware), and gallery-wrapped premium canvas (also ready to hang). I limit each title to an edition of ten for each size/surface combination, signed and numbered 1/10 through 10/10.

Working with a custom fine-art printing house, I produce each photograph individually from my original digital workfile. I sign, number, and ship a photograph only after personally ensuring that it is produced to my highest standards.

I got interested in photography as a boy, when a close relative loaned me his beloved twin lens reflex camera and taught me how to process the film, make prints, and set up my own darkroom in a closet below the stairs. I've been shooting ever since. My first college was as a photography major at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. I changed my major to education when I transferred to Cleveland State University but continued to take photography and art classes along with my major coursework. I ended up with a Master of Arts Degree in Education.

I gravitate toward scenes of nature - landscapes, water, mountains, wildlife, plants and flowers. My style leans toward photo-impressionism, abstraction, and abstract expressionism.

'Straight out of the camera' with minimal adjustments is often all that I need to get my message across, but I also use various techniques of both traditional photography and digital art. For example I might use in-camera approaches such as long exposure, depth compositing, selective focus, multiple exposure, or intentional camera movement to capture a particular moment or feeling.

I may make use of techniques of the digital darkroom, such as depth compositing, photo collage or image blending to emphasize a unique connection or an experience. I add painting with digital paintbrushes to some of my photographs.