Prior to the portrait work featured on this site, I was primarily a landscape photographer. However, with a background in illustrating, painting, and graphic design, I sought a way to enhance certain photos. This photo, taken at Point Lobos State Park in California with a medium format camera begged for greatness. It suggested, to me, the ink paintings of Japan and China.
In order to achieve this effect, I layer the original with other images: the leather cover of a five-hundred year-old book, a field of salt grass. The crystal detail of the high resolution original blended with the simpler images. This photo prints well in very large format.
The super-abundance of photographs in current circulation begs us as photographers to look deeply into the subject and story of our work.