My photographic seeing usually results in prints with abstract forms and colors, often from findings on sidewalks, yards, building walls, junk piles and in the woods. In my ongoing “Street Art” series I collect patterns of tar repairs on streets, colors on curbs, and the odd objects found there. The “Rorschach Series” is an ongoing distillation of forms with few or no halftones – what do they look like to you? The “Paintingraphs” are larger abstractions from nature and the built world that are minimally processed in Lightroom to remove texture and detail so the painterly quality shows. My photography is captured with full-frame, high resolution 35mm DSLR and mirrorless cameras [-or the iPhone in raw!]. Many prints are in the 3’x4’ range or bigger, but can be made in all sizes, usually UV coated and float mounted on Dibond composite. Visit galleries by scrolling down or clicking on the shortcut for each.
Photography
Abstract paintings? Paintingraphs are captured from places where they live in the world and taken away in my camera. A little work in Lightroom makes them look like abstract paintings, and then I print them BIG
Paintingraphs
I’ve been to places that changed me.
Travel
When I look at the light and the forms of the natural world this is what I see…
Nature
Rorschach Series
What happens if we take out some or all of the half tones? In my former professional life as a psychologist, I used and taught the Rorschach Ink Blot Technique. Now I make my own. What does it look like to you?
Dried leaves, silhouetted in winter. Do you see the rabbit and the T-Rex? How 'bout a sea horse?
Microscope picture of paramecium? Nah.... Car pulled out in snowy street
Weeping willow
These look like sacred scrolls with arcane writing, right? They are giant grain silos in Saint Louis, about a hundred feet tall!
Blob of tar on sidewalk
Is it Marcel Marceau, the mime? Nope, just some old painted plaster
Street Art Series
Just look down where you are…. Artists are everywhere
section is in progress… more to come!
Food
I enjoy cooking. I like the meditative experience of just chopping, then pans and fire. Visuals are beautiful. Then sharing with people.
The summer classic - Aperol Spritz
Poached-in-white-wine salmon over vidalia onions, with citrus
Eggplant parmigiana, made in the style developed by my son-in-law, Drew... individual circles of 3 levels! Lots of work, best done as a team like we do, and SO delicious!
Ready to eat them!
Oh come on... don't you just want to eat them all - with sauce, of course!
Add tomato sauce and....
Ready to eat!
Peppers and tomatoes with blue tabletop
Fun with the peppers and a Photoshop oil painting filter
Summertime morning coffee on the blue table
Chicken with herbs and spices, all cuddled up
An unusual favorite of mine - okra, Texas style, with jalapeños, onions, tomatoes and bacon!
One of my favorite knives from Santa Fe Knifeworks, matched with its soon-to-be victim
Don't ask... just goofing around with tools
My daughter Suzie's mediterranean salad all neatly placed
At the marketplace in Vienna
Around the House
Look around and there is always something interesting, strange, funny or beautiful
We tied up our big miscanthus grasses for the winter and snow came to visit
I found a milkweed pod outside and put it on the scanner with the top open.
OK, this wasn't at home, but it could have been. I think Monet might have painted those leaves.
Scrub daddy and mommy hanging out. They make me happy and they last forever!
Some kind of giant radish, I think it was.