May 3, 2025

This is an in-camera, quadruple exposure. Photographed May 3, 2025.

The Dandelion (April 2025)

A strange realization that this image resembles an interior 'vision' I had days earlier washed over me when I stared at my computer monitor screen, having clicked "save image" hours earlier. I believe I encountered this image in a remarkably specific and visually-particular daydream a few days before I made the in-camera quadruple-exposure that served as the source image of this final version. 

The notion of a species of humans that grew a small jewel or diamond or precious amber or ruby or jade or sapphire or turquoise literally on the skin, embedded on the surface like an indelible tattoo, naturally growing each time an act of true love or true kindness was done from purely selfless, noble intentions. These people who did the most good in society would be notable for their encrusted, bejeweled skin surfaces, like old barnacles on a sunken chest of treasure. 

Late April 2025

These are a few images which are emerging from a small group of multiple-exposures I made during two short photography sessions over two days. During late afternoon, in open shade, I used a full-frame dslr with a 105mm macro, at F8. The camera I use has a built-in flash that I find extremely valuable in situations like this. Handheld, at shutter speeds between 1/200 and 1/60, using the TTL flash and sometimes the lens' vibration-dampening ('VR') setting, about fifteen exposures were made in total. All the images were of the exact same dandelion. Each image is actually an in-camera multiple exposure: the first day's images were triple-exposures, while day two switched the setting to quadruple-exposures. This image is from day two. It is an in-camera quadruple-exposure.  The shadows in this photo have been toned a slight orange-red, while the highlights and midtones are a considerably warmer yellow/ivory "gray". More images to follow.

Untitled Multiple Exposure, Multiple Self Portrait, 2025

 

Cat and Dog Orchids, 2024

How I Create New Work, January 2025

 Candy cigarettes came to mind as I stared at these two works on my computer screen.Nikon D810 w/ 85mm Nikkor PC. Lit with LED lightbar through diffusion screen, 6 sec exposure.

October 2024

 

The Secret Life of Candy (October 2024)

 

Late September, 2024: Memory over Time, Time over Memory

After having finished editing these two photos, I've come to the conclusion that they remind me of the way that a specific memory changes over time, just as the historical record changes as years go by,  and that things which once originally seem ideal and solid  inevitably become abstract and faded. or perhaps more gently and elegantly stated,  MY INEVITABLE REFLECTIONS UPON THE PARADE OF ENTROPY.
Both images were created using a +10 year old Nikon D7100 dslr (35mm 'cropped-format' or 'dx') and a 24mm lens of even earlier vintage. The top image, in black-and-white with its' magnificent  doubravatone finish, is a seemingly 'simple' in-camera, traditional, multiple (triple) exposure. The color image below is an in-camera 'image-overlay' of an in-camera triple exposure and an in-camera double -exposure. The D7100 produces 24 mb RAW files.These reproductions here of course are much smaller jpegs, by necessity.

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.

Recent Work

 

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.

Recent Work: June 2024

 

New Work (April 2024)

 This image began as a triple-exposure, which was then duplicated four times and arranged to complete the final work. 

Double-Exposed Orchid (March 10, 2024)

 

Skyland; Eye in the Sky (January 2024)

In-camera double-exposures using 85mm p.c. lens on full-frame digital 35mm camera.

Sleepwalkers (January 2024)

This is an image of somnambulists, sleepwalkers, engaging in an act of wish-fulfillment. This is simultaneously an image of two spiritual adepts engaging in the practice of "hidden knowledge" based rituals.

 

High Desert Mirages, New Mexico (March 2023)

 

February 2023

 

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