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 on fine art papers. 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, bookmarks, and notecards at local festivals and art shows and also through the Gallery Room at the Pine Emporium in Pine Grove, CO. I enjoy meeting people at the shows and talking about my image subjects, locations, and photography in general.