Verbena Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

Thank you for your interest in purchasing my photographs. Working with a custom fine-art printing house, I produce each photograph individually, treating each print as the original. I sign and number a photograph only after personally ensuring that it is produced to the highest standards. I limit each title to ten prints for a given combination of size and printing surface, offering prints in small, medium, and large sizes on fine-art paper or ready to hang on face-mounted acrylic or wrapped canvas. To contact me about custom framing or sizes or surfaces not currently shown here email curator@saatchiart.com or find me on Instagram. 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. Sometimes I 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.