Field and Screen

Photography is composed of two main theatres of artistic creation: what you do in the field and what you do on-screen. Artistically, each informs the other. The camera and the digital files or negatives produced in the field are the vehicles for capturing your experiences. Breathing life back into the scene is the job of post-capture processing.

Considering my personal focus is on Real-world Photography . . .

. . . the works I share here are raw files developed/processed to meet those standards. That is, each photograph is creative, honest and ethical and it is not meant to deceive the viewer or misrepresent the subject or scene. In other words, what you see in my finished photographs reflects my experience—what I saw and felt at the time of capture. Processing applied to the raw file helps to accentuate elements of the scene or subject in a way that is true to their nature.

As I am human, and not a bot or robot or machine, I see the world with a human brain and human emotions, then make decisions to best capture the reality I see and experience. I take the straight-out-of-the-camera machine-made raw file and breathe back into it those human emotions, understanding and empathy.

None of the images are digital manipulations. I do not replace skies. At most, I remove grit, wires, spots and those annoying strands of grass that the wind may well have changed on its own—none of which changes the natural integrity of the scene or subject.