Location: United States
My photographic biography might be best represented with this profile:
The title used here relates to my ambitious plans to create multiple new portfolios which will further explore the thematic and aesthetic motifs of the work now appearing on my website. In short, the following selection is a very partial "preamble" of what is to come.
Though completely shrouded in the late afternoon shadow of the background high wood fencing around a Beverly Hills tennis court, this lone shoot of new tree/leaf growth was so expressive in its' sense of gesture, sense of reaching upward toward the light, that judicious use of lens filters enabled the high contrast isolation evident here to convey a near euphoric sense of weightlessness.
The reality that every photographic excursion is an adventure where you never know where/ when 'magic' will strike is exemplified with this case. On the shadow side - there is no direct sunlight striking anywhere in this image - of the high perimeter wall surrounding a Beverly Hills, California tennis court there was a border of landscaping vegetation; so thick in some places as to be almost a nearly undifferentiated fractal tangle. And then . . . 'magic'!
This image is one of a collage series based on the original black and white image. During a nocturnal photographic expedition around Beverly Hills, the extremely proximate, raw and almost garish overhead streetlight illumination cast down on these dangling tree branches, and the resulting impression of near luminescence given to their tendril geometry aroused such a visceral attraction that the analogy with lightning was immediate and irresistible.
Just beyond the late afternoon shadow cast by a Marina del ray, CA apartment building, the combination of the arching symmetry of its' curving growth pattern, and the nearly palpable sense that the fingers of this palm frond were ecstatically reaching out to absorb every possible photon of the sun's light made this image seem as if it were also almost asking to be seen and recorded. This is a color-enhanced, collage variation of the original B&W image.
Northwest of Santa Barbara, California the small, picturesque town of Solvang rests amid the beautiful rolling hills of this area. Gracing the crests and ravines of these hills are many Oak trees. While driving into Solvang on this completely clear and glaring summer afternoon, my eye was drawn out beyond the roadside fence line to this dead, but still standing old Oak on the adjoining hillside. The intuitive sense that it promised some striking images was so strong that I quickly parked and hiked back down the road, and over the fence to explore. This three-shot series - Ungnarled Sky - was the result; now duplicated in sepia tones and this series of composite collage compositions.
“Weightless With Light”
“Life Luminescent2”
“Almost Lightning_Collage5”
“Radiance Fan_Collage4”
“Ungnarled Sky1_Collage”
