A problem while making a long exposure in very low light on my digital camera, turned into a very interesting accident. It think it has a very 1950s look.  

Ochid.

One my favorite ways of lighting a subject is backlighting. Having a dark background with little or no detail helps to make the subject stand out.   

Spirit Ascending

This image of the ladder to the clouds was inspired by a piece of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Skylark Ascending. The camera was a Nikon D70 with a Nikkor 12-24mm lens.    

Weathered Plywood.

Another close up of a surface. This time a weathered piece of  plywood, which I found discarded near to my home.  Usually, the older the object , the more interesting the surface.    

Peeling Paint.

Surfaces make a very interesting subject for photography, and are usually best captured close up with strong side lighting. Placing the light on the side will reveal the texture and form. Nikon D200 with 18-70mm lens.

Ladder and Shadows.

The ladder has always been a strong symbol for me, and I have often used it in my artwork. I made this ladder originally for part of a sculpture installation, but it has also become a prop in my photography. Nikon D70 with Nikkor 18-70mm lens.  

Minotaur.

This is a painting I started yesterday, but was not quite finished to post. When is a painting ever finished? I started in a very abstract way with rhythmic strokes, as if painting to music, and it took on a life of its own. Watercolor paints and pencils.

Open Window.

I was very tempted to place another image within the darkened window, but there a sense of mystery in the blackness, so I will leave it. Less is sometimes more. D200 with 18-70mm lens.

Winter Field.

This image grew from a slide taken from a moving bus in Austria. We were traveling up to the mounting slopes to do some skiing in Oberau, Wildschonau. Canon FTQL with 50mm lens, Kodachrome 64asa film. Post production involved many layers with Photoshop.

May Orchid.

Not sure what variety of orchid this is, but I photographed it in the studio using the "painting with light" technique. I placed my camera on a sturdy tripod, and used a very long exposure to recored myself lighting the orchid. This meant moving the LED flashlight rapidly around flower. Some post production was done in Photoshop. Nikon D2x with Nikkor 80-200mm lens, 16 second exposure.

The Vale of the White Horse

On the hillside mostly hidden from view lays the prehistoric Uffington White Horse. A 3000 year old, 374 feet (110m) long artwork, which is really best seen from the air. Nikon D200 with Tokina SD 12-24mm DX lens.

Hampshire Hills

Hampshire is a southern county in England, and once the home of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. It has also been the inspiration for Keats, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This view of the Hampshire Hills is from a series of images captured on my last trip to England. Nikon D200 with Tokina SD 12-24 F4 DX lens.

Open Book

I normally light my still life subjects with tungsten or strobes, carefully arranging them until I get the desired effect, but I just happen to see the light striking the bedroom floor, so I quickly grabbed the old book and placed it in the patch of sunlight. Nikon D200 with 18-70mm lens.

Vicarage Garden

English gardens are very appealing to me, especially when they have topiary.

Cotswolds Vista.

I can spend as much a time painting with pixels as I would with painting watercolor, or with any other medium. This was a photograph taken on a Nikon D200, with a 18-70mm lens. The location was close to Stratford-on-Avon, England. Post production was with Photoshop, which involved at least eight stages and several effects. I prefer not to use the same formula every time I process the photos, but I do tend to use the Photoshop auto levels as part of the beginning clean up.