As a photographic creator, I have spent forty metaphorical years wandering in the wilderness of photographic creativty. Seeking the answer of how best to share my vision with an audience. Black & White or Color? 35mm, 2 ¼, 4 X 5, or 8 X 10? Film or digital?

In a quest to find the method and materials that most clearly allow me to express my vision, I have experiemented with virtually every format, film type, paper choice, and printing technique available to the photographic artist.

 For over a decade, I worked exclusively in black & white. Individually graded Oriental papers arranged in their boxes, sitting in a phalanx of massive flat files awaiting their turn under the light of my enlarger.

As the quality of color processes improved, new creative doors opened. One by one, I tried them and suffered disappointment after disappointment. CibaChrome? The unrealistic contrast and plastic look of the finished prints felt vaguely dishonest.  C-prints? The inescapable deterioration kept me from embracing the method. Dye transfer was too expensive. I want my prints to hang proudly on walls until I am long dead. C-prints deprecated before I could grow a good beard.

The emergence of digital technologies brought new questions and new methods. Doubts and opportunities. As any creative professional must, I explored this brave new creative world, and dipped my feet, albeit reluctantly, into the waters of digital process creativity.

 To my surprise, I found the answer to my printing dilema. Color quality and a need to remain connected to the roots of my craft has me shooting FujiChrome slides, only now instead of spending hours entombed in my darkroom poisoning myself, I can work in the relative light and airiness of my studio. I perform the same color adjustments as before; with the same goals. Saring the moments I've experienced with people who share my love of beauty. I have found that in terms of stability, control, and quality of the final print, current digital technology is vastly superior to any conventional dark room approach.

Epson K3 pigment prints will be color fast for at least 60 years, and may remain stable up to 100 years. A level of color fastness and stability no conventional color printing technique can offer.  In addition, I have, at long last, found a way to make sure the images I shoot are the ones that hang on my client’s walls.