May 2026

 

Exploding Flowers of the Kansas Prairie

This quadruple-exposure was created in-camera using a swing/tilt flat-field 80mm lens on a full-frame dslr. Handheld, using on-camera flash.

 

 

July 2025

 Ten in-camera multiple exposures on a single file. Camera rotated 360 degrees during sequence of exposures. 

Kansas Landscapes, September 2024

These multiple-exposure photographs were made with a full-frame 35mm dslr with an older 85mm pc lens. The front element of the lens was swung away from the "film-plane" to the maximum extent allowed. The lens was either wide open or just no smaller than f4.5. A small amount of grain has been digitally added, to increase the perceived sharpness.

The total number of exposures on each one of these images was either five, or six, depending on the photo. They were shot hand-held, using the multiple-exposure mode on my dslr, which allows one to shoot multiple exposures on the same digital file, in the camera, without mandatory post-production.

Triple-Exposures (August 2024)

 

Triple-Exposures (July 27, 2024)

 

Kansas Landscapes (June 2024): In-Camera Multiple-Exposure

 These images are four exposures each. Same buildings. Top frame with 20mm on APS format, the bottom to images were made with 85mm PC on full-frame 35mm digital.

More Imaginary Kansas, Fall 2022

 

Kansas Landscape with Electrical Utility Pole (summer 2022)

 A three-exposure panorama.  This landscape photo is composed of three individual, (though overlapping) landscape photographs; each of which was made with a full-frame 35mm DSLR and attached 35mm lens. This strange combination of the wooden vertical obelisk and wild vines suggested an element of eros at work (or play?) within the fertile fields of Northeast Kansas.  

October 2022: Kansas Landscape

 This image of a landscape in Northeast Kansas was created on location, using the multiple-exposure function on a Nikon D810 with a 35mm lens. Two exposures were made in succession, with a 180 degree camera rotation between them. 

This is a Kansas landscape in miniature; this is an Imaginary Kansas.

Autumn Cornfield, Lawrence, Kansas, September 2022

 

October 2022

Top frame: In-camera double exposure, using 35mm lens on full-frame 35mm DSLR

Bottom frame: In-camera double exposure, combined with another in-camera double exposure of same subject made minutes earlier, using same equipment as top frame

September 3, 2022: Double-Exposure (in-camera)

 

New Work: Spring 2022 Multiple-Exposure in the Clover

Process

This first image is a double-exposure, and has been fully processed from a single, in-camera RAW file into a final TIFF after editing. I then made the reduced size JPEG you are looking at for internet purposes.

 I've included two photographs here: The smaller photo is more-or-less a straight out of camera image with minimal processing. The larger photograph is edited using, post-digital-processing and what I can only call "handwork" in Lightroom and Photoshop. The camera I use, a full-frame DSLR, allows for the production of multiple exposures on the same file, producing a RAW original.This image was a double exposure. I've done a bit of work increasing contrast, applying both minus clarity AND plus dehaze, and slight variations to a magenta, blue, and yellow color channels. I also tried split toning with color to add a color cast to the shadows and highlights. I still consider the final, processed image to be the truer expression of my internal, pre-conceived ideal. The expressive power of the image is finalized and made manifest in the 'digital darkroom', just as in days past the true vision of the analog photographer was made "real" in the analog darkroom. My photographs are not ABOUT the process, but they can't exist without it. That is why I occasionally share these details, since I normally prefer to speak only of the 'content', however one defines that slippery term. For me content refers more to intentions than objects.

Kansas, Farmland with Powerplant, November 2020

 

Wetland Abstractions, Kansas, November 2020

The top image was a single exposure of the pond, made using a polarizing filter and a 105mm lens.

 This image is an in-camera triple-exposure. The camera was held parallel to the horizon for the first image, then rotated 180 degrees for the second exposure, and so on to the third, final exposure.