Willamette Valley

Beautiful Oregon wine country in the fall... Found some grapes still clinging to the vine. Such a lovely day!

Show your bones

First off, I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and their album "Show Your Bones". You all should run right out and listen to it if you have not yet done so.

I also have a fascination with actual bones and animal skins and such and am always looking for a way to photographically capture the beauty and intensity of these objects in a compelling way. Here are two recent experiments using the same skull as the central object.

New Studio Work

Playing around with some new ideas and stylistic devices... I've been working with different ways to get an old-timey, sort of antiqued look that isn't blatantly Photo-chopped. Here is one of the more successful attempts...