Western Eye Photography

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Traditionally, the fine print has been the end, or at least the end product, of the photographic process. I confess that in my photographic life I have generally avoided making and selling prints — until recently. This is because traditional darkroom prints of color images never satisfied me. Whether Cibachrome, or any other process, earlier color prints never equalled the tactile quality of black-and-white darkroom prints, and never matched their archival longevity. Worse yet, traditional color printing never came close to capturing the saturation, contrast range, and vividness of my original Fujichrome transparencies. All that has changed with the coming of age of fine digital printmaking. The quality I've dreamed of for years is actually here. After some intensive work and study with my friend and mentor, Bill Atkinson, I am now finally able to make, exhibit and sell prints that meet my own absurdly high standards. [Bill Atkinson, by the way, is perhaps the most accomplished color photo printer today and a brilliant nature photographer in his own right. I think of Bill as the Ansel Adams of the color photogrphic print. You can see a rich sample of his remarkable work at www.BillAtkinson.com .] The portfolios on this web site are just the tip of the iceberg, but they constitute tightly related visual stories that I love to present together. Other images, from my earlier books and from my image files, are also available as prints.

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