CONSWORLD

I photograph the natural world close to home in the area of Pine, Colorado. Wildlife and nature surround my home on a sunny southern slope of an unnamed hill at 8600 ft. on the border of a future state park. I’m in the montane zone, in a ponderosa and douglass fir forest. It’s a beautiful area in every season with abundant wildlife.

My process is to try always to have a camera with me so that when I see elk in the road, the moon over a mountain or a hawk circling overhead I can make a photography stop.

Sometimes, I go out with an intention and spend a morning or several mornings photographing a single subject. More often, I go out and photograph what ever captures my attention in the morning or evening sunlight. Cloudy skies? Photograph all day!

My equipment includes three digital SLRs and several good lenses which I use for the initial capture in digital RAW format plus jpeg.

I crop and resize the jpeg files for posting here, on my blog. Most of the images I post on this blog are single image captures. A few are lower resolution versions of images I print, but many can be seen on the blog only, interesting captures with a story to tell, but not necessarily an image I would print.

I process the RAW files with Adobe Camera Raw and print with a pigment ink printer. I print a lot of single image captures. However, some of the images I print are composites of two or more captures. I also create and print digital collages and montages from my images. And, I print images I’ve painted with a digital tablet.

I sell prints, matted prints, matted and framed prints, and notecards at local art festivals in summer and fall.