I am a freelance photographer, based in Washington, DC. For many years now, I have been documenting life on the streets of DC and other places where I happened to be. I look for the extraordinary in the everyday--things that we pass going about our daily business and might never really see. I take pictures of normal life, trying to capture people in their activities without their notice. I generally do not do set-up shots. I work in both traditional film (35mm and medium format) and digital photography. I am fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the movement of people and objects through a specific place--the fact that we occupy a given volume of space for only a brief time and then move on, to be replaced by emptiness or someone/something else. Over time, I have been developing a series that attempts to express that idea of movement through space--some of these are displayed in the "City of Transience" gallery on this website. These are multiple shots of a specific site, most of them worked into wide panoramas that combine many instants of time into a single image. I formerly did these in a traditional darkroom, but now have adapted the technique for digital production. I like the idea that the resulting image is both true and false--everything in the image really happened in that spot, but no one could have actually seen what the entire image reveals. I also have a great love for landscape photography, but am more drawn to intimate details rather than expansive vistas. I particularly have a thing for taking portraits of trees, which I find are often as individual and distinctive as people. I also do informal portrait work.
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