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I began shooting as a kid with a 10 cent, one-use film camera\u2013a tin toy on a keychain. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every negative was flared or distorted, but looked like the allegorical images of my young-boy dreams, so I was happy. It taught me to shoot on either side of perfection-always looking for something I couldn’t see<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hacked the shutter with a paperclip to shoot multiple exposures. It was a richly layered and heady analog space for an eight-year-old kneecap shooter. Almost 20 years later, and for two decades I shot large format 8×10 sheet film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, most of my work is digital, but thinking back, the machinations of a manual Deardorff were so laborious, each sheet drew me into a meditative and unconscious flow. When it takes 4 hours to set up each plate and wait for the right feel, you learn to sense light, and give feel more weight than reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been a digital artist since 1989 and often use my vintage film as a base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in the day with an 8×10 Deardorff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I sell most of my fine art large format photography in a closed market\u2013quite often to clients who contract me for large communications projects<\/em>. My art hangs in their homes, boardrooms, and offices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sell my commercial work to the same clients who often use my imagery in projects I develop for their companies and organizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTW … the historic image above of the 356 PORSCHE ROADSTER & the BUG<\/strong>, is NOT<\/strong> Photoshopped except for minor adjustments to contrast, brightness, and focus. It is also NOT<\/strong> Ai from an APP. Special effects for this image were dynamically created IN-CAMERA<\/strong> in real time as the V-DUB drove by \u2026 agape<\/em>.

It took years to develop and fine tune my technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a video of the results …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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