The Crown Jewels of Dayton Calendar Project

The new Crown Jewels of Dayton calendar is now available. Click the link to the right to view the images. This project is near and dear to my heart for many reasons. Breast cancer has impacted the lives of my family as well as the lives of close personal friends. If you purchase one or several (at a mere $10 each), you will become part of a selfless effort on the part of many to make diagnosis and treatment possible for hundreds of people without the means to do so. Please submit your order request here.

Location portraiture

By virtue of many editorial assignments thru Picture Group and SABA, I become enamored with environmental portraits. Trying to add some element or clue as to the nature of the story itself becomes my hallmark goal. Every picture tells a story. It's the name of a chapter in my book, Location Photography Secrets. Learning to adapt to various environs with regard to lighting and color becomes crucial. Because I am using film in this era, problem-solving along these lines is my modus.

Then along comes affordable useable digital technology. I play with the beta in 1990 but get serious in 1993 with that coolscan and mac for digitizing my slides. And yes, these are the many months before layers and history palette.

By the turn of the century, I've gone through several digital cameras from kodak, olympus and nikon of the (now) digicam type. One I use on the road with Rhythm in Shoes to do what would now be called a blog, creating a virtual tour by uploading pages and pics via dial-up (!) from various parts of the country every day we are on the road.

But as digital SLRs become affordable, and raw file processing becomes simpler, everything changes. Old techniques and approaches to lighting and color can morph and adapt to the new considerations of post production processing control and ISO change-on-the-fly. As larger files become the norm, cropping evolves to a significant option. In 5 years, the entire world of photography is turned around. And it is all good.

Portraits of Sunshine and Shadow

Portraits of Sunshine and Shadow (POSAS) is a beautiful collaboration with David Coleman, the executive director of the Dunbar Institute and Dr. Linda Burrs. We have been fortunate to have placed this little show of large-scale portraits at a variety of interesting venues all over the Dayton region. We hope to expand the presentation in the near future to include 21 individuals, each with an amazing story.

Our mission is the inclusion of the rich texture of diversity of all people of the world. Arts and our common humanity is our theme. Our projects promote the growth of art and culture through artistic endeavors that further the embrace of our commonality as human beings.

The Crown Jewels of Dayton: A calendar that
benefits women who can't afford mammograms. View the images here.

Digital Pinhole images
Using a digital SLR and a bodycap pinhole, I am able to make some compelling, interesting photos.

See dance images of the last five years .
DCdC, Rhythm in Shoes, Dayton Ballett, NCDT, and RDA. All received with digital SLR cameras.

Portraits of Sunshine and Shadow
The Dunbar Institute presents a series of portraits of individuals who have overcome the shadows in their lives and are giving back to family and community.

At Home with a little whimsy
Ongoing assignments photographing area homes for a monthly publication. A summary set of favorite images!