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Annual Spider Awards Nominee
Three of my photographs, _Hope, Onacho and When I Light a Torch_ , were nominees in the fine art category of the annual Black & White Spider Awards. I definitely appreciate the nominee and Spider's work in promoting photography as an art...
Read more →New Safe Confinement
The New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl was moved into position in November, but only now have I seen some videos of it. This one is pretty epic with a lot of good timelapses. The NSC is an engineering marvel, I'm really surprised we don't...
Read more →March POM- das Ventile
The print of the month for March is "Das Ventile, Hatttingen, Germany" Hattingen is a lovely little town on the Ruhr river in western Germany. It is certainly worth a visit to see the old timber houses and original city wall, but that i...
Read more →Duga Antenna
This month's print of the month is "Antenna, Chernobyl-2" Visiting this site in Ukraine was something I had dreamed of for years. The history of the Russian woodpecker is a Cold War legend that I remember hearing about as a kid. The c...
Read more →Down the Rabbit Hole
One of the things that drew me to photography was the mix of the technical and artistic. I built my first large format camera, built numerous darkrooms, developed my own film, studied the zone system etc. However, I've always been concerned...
Read more →The Real Edge of Alaska
In August 2014 I drove my 4Runner from Oakland California to Prudhoe Bay Alaska, 3,448 miles ONE WAY! On the way back I made several side trips including one to Kennecott Alaska. Kennecott is the mining town, and location of the copper mine...
Read more →Black & White Magazine 2016
I am excited to be featured in the Black & White Magazine Special Issue 2016. Three of my images were chosen this year: Unfinished Cooling Tower, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine 2013 Carrie Corridor, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 2015...
Read more →What Is Fine Art Photography?
Sarcastic Answers: Photography that has no commercial value? Photography that is made for no reason? Weird photography meant for hipsters? Thinking logically I would think that "Fine Art Photography" started as a category, like "Commercial...
Read more →Is Film Dead?
Going back to perhaps 2001 it seemed like film was going to die. Even a couple years ago this might have been a serious question with the pixel-ographers focused on digital or die propaganda, and the use of film plummeting. The reality is t...
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