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Just and old guy with a camera. I've been a dedicated amateur since my high school days (pre-calculators let alone computers). I love to shoot images in the morning light and to travel the back roads around my home town with my Canon 7D - drive by shooting is so much fun.

For the past few years I've been exploring landscapes, nature and the kind and gentle Amish community that surrounds my home. I am printing my images much more these days - and that has taken me back to times spent in a darkroom. Digital photography is nice, but a print brings that image to life. It is always a thrill when a fine print emerges from the printer. I am also enjoying a renewed love of B & W photography. Thank goodness advances in digital processing and printing have brought this beautiful format back to be enjoyed once again.

I hope you enjoy my photostream. If you do, please feel free to comment - I would love to hear from you.

Please don't use any of my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.






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Week of April 19, 2010


"Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction." Ernst Haas

The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.

~Ernst Haas - Comment in workshop, 1985

"When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches."

~Edward Weston

"Photography is the ideal medium in which to challenge assumptions, because of all art forms, it is one people most expect to represent reality... The creative photographer grapples with these expectations, shaping or altering reality by the way he or she approaches a subject."

~ Keith A. Boas




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