I have been interested in photography as long as I can remember. When I was little I had a theory that photographs were already inside dad’s little film canisters, and when he sent them off to be developed all the store did was take them out, unfold them, and iron out the creases. (I’ve learned a little bit more about photography since then.)
Photographer, maker, explorer
Recent journal entries
Ma, Xián, and the American West
I recently joined the Artists’ Coalition of Flagstaff, a group of local artists doing the usual things: they have a gallery in town, there are workshops, studio tours, etc. This week they are holding a...
Inadvertent Homage to Winslow Homer
The National Gallery of Art has a fun daily art-related game called Artle, in which you get four guesses to identify the artist behind the day’s selection of art pieces. One of today’s paintings – by...
Featured Artist – Sedona Arts Center
Earlier this year I joined the artists at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona. Several of my tintype photographs are on display there year-round. Periodically the Arts Center chooses a couple of artists to...
The Two Gun Saloon
I don’t always drive long distances over rough 4WD trails to get to my tintype locations. Sometimes there are some pretty cool subjects in my own backyard. The property I live on near Flagstaff, Arizona...
North Rim Tintype Excursion
It has been several years since I made any tintype photographs of the Grand Canyon, and now that it’s practically in my backyard (I recently moved to the Flagstaff area!) I wanted to spend some...
Cathedral Rock and Oak Creek Tintype
In honor of joining the gallery at the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona, I decided I really should make a tintype of a Sedona-area landmark. It’s challenging to find typical Sedona scenes that don’t...