Black and white photography, night photography, painting with light, time exposures and other experimental techniques are the focus of the majority of my photographs.
Car Self Portrait

     This is an example of "painting with light." There are four light sources in this photo, if you include the streak of light from the car passing in the background. I set the 4X5 Speed Graphic with 90mm angulon lens on F 16 after focusing on the ground glass with the lens fully opened. I then locked the shutter open. The first light applied to the scene was a powerful flash about 60 feet away to the left. I was not in the car for this exposure (I was firing the flash). Most night lighting is point sources, which can be easily imitated with flash as long as it is fairly far away from the subject. With the F stop and distance, it took five flash firings to reach the correct exposure. I stood behind bushes to give the light some shadows. I then moved to the car with a large flashlight and hid below the dashboard level in the front seat to illuminate the weeds and ground to the right of the car just outside the open door. The estimated exposure for the flashlight was 3 seconds, so I moved the flashlight back and forth accordingly. The last exposure was by the map light in the front of the car above the windshield. I metered this exposure and moved myself slightly during the exposure to leave a blurred but humanoid image. This wasn't to be a self-portrait. It's really a photograph of you in the car, you know, you, the reader. But you didn't show, so I had to stand in.

 

The Car Series

These are all taken on a 4X5 Graphic press camera. They are time exposures taken at night.

Self-Portraits

Pictures of moi. Just what you were hoping to avoid, eh? On the other hand, who else is around and will put up with this?

Portraits

Taken with medium  format cameras with various lighting styles, including the now-infamous flashlight.

 Night Photographs

My specialty for many years. Large format and designed for high resolution viewing, they are difficult to show successfully on the web.....

Journalistic Photographs

From my days on the Queen Anne's Record Observer, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Photographs of Work

Taken with both large and small format
cameras.

Bar Photographs

Most of these were taken years ago, when I lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The majority are small format. I used a 35mm with a 28mm wide angle for almost all photos then.

Chairs

That's right, photographs of chairs. Have a seat . . .

Odds and Ends

Links
Bill Emory

A black and white photographer who also is from Charlottesville, Va. There are many great photos here. "His black-and-white images are at once spontaneous and carefully imagined, glances and good, long looks- at the world, at our neighbors, at ourselves." Quote from Amy Lemley's review.

Andy Brooks -
Fine Art Black & White Photography		 A Canadian based photographer with excellent architectural photographs in black and white. You should also check out the gallery of photographs from Holland Marsh called "Life on the Canal."
Dichoy Dong

These are some of the most interesting spontaneous street photographs I've seen.
Pictures of Ireland

Night Photography of Dublin and Ireland by Philip Pankov, award-winning Irish photographer.

Contemporary fine art gallery with locations in the SoHo and Chelsea art districts of New York City. Exhibiting painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and mixed medias. Artist portfolios are reviewed. Has been sponsoring the SoHo - Chelsea International Art Competition since 1984.
Totku Abstract photography and images of nature by cambodian photographer Ciro Totku.
ExplorePhotography An excellent resource on photography, both digital and film.
Mark Ingram Photography An Australian photographer with an excellent collection of shots.
66 format com A great portfolio of rich black and white images. These are mostly stark sea scenes, tightly composed for the square format.
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