Echoes of 9/11

Small Scale Canyon Making

Looking Up

Bottom Falls Out

Sentinels of the Temples

Dust to Dust

Only a Matter of Time

Calf Creek Patterns

Satellite and Stars

Moonset over the Sun

Lost in Erosion

Calf Creek Falls

Last Light from the Eclipse

From Miller Point

Island of Erosion

Cathedral Gorge

Gustave LeGreg

Probably better not to ask :)

Calf Creek Abstract

Stand Your Ground

Just Another Break in the Wall

Despite All Logic

Capitol Reef Abstract

Calf Creek Detail

The Great Hall

Ellis Island Stairs

Gapstow Bridge

Liberty and Time

Central Park

Simply Desert

Black vs White

I took these a few years ago just outside of Capitol Reef National Park. I meant to use them in my Zone System class to discuss the differences between 'accurate' and 'interpretive' exposure. If we really understand exposure (this is different then letting our digital cameras do all the thinking for us) we can be more free to be creative in how we interpret our subjects. These two pictures were created by using different exposures, development times and printing modifications (dodging and burning). I find all of these tools to be integral parts of the expressive photographic processes. Bragging about an image being straight out of the camera without manipulation has always been amusing to me...the process of taking a picture itself is a manipulation. Is it just admitting that you had nothing more to say?