New Works (April 19, 2026)

 

In-Camera Multiple-Exposure, December 2025

 

September 2025 : work in process

This image originated as an in-camera double-exposure, that I immediately cropped, duplicated, horizontally rotated, and then paired flush to the original.

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.

 

 

God of the Dandelions (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. 

Cat and Dog Orchids, 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. 

New Work: Spring 2022 Multiple-Exposure in the Clover

Nocturnal Eyeball Orchid, January 2021

 

This image began as an eight-shot, in-camera multiple-exposure photograph, Using a DSLR with multiple-exposure capability I photographed my eyeball, pointing the camera at my eyeball as I held the camera with one hand. Additionally, in order to make things more difficult, the only light source was a tiny pinhole-like light beam which was travelling into the room through the security peephole in the door. This multiple-exposure process was repeated and then images were selected and combined to create a new composite. This composite was then duplicated and the duplicate was reversed. The new reversed composite was dragged on top of the initial one. The images were then selectively modified via layer erasing/layer density in Photoshop, and then the layers were flattened, creating this new, final, 'master-composite'. This is as yet still a preliminary version of the as yet unfinished image.

  The process is so simple a monkey could do it!
 

Exploding Orchidbomb (October 14, 2020)

This image is a composite created from an original single photograph of an orchid. This source image was a multiple exposure of the orchid. This original source image was multiplied into individual identical copies. These nine copies were divided into three sets of three images each; each set was a row of three images in a horizontal line. These sets were either rotated vertically, or left alone. These sets were then arranged on top of each other, with each row laid horizontally upon the row beneath it. These rows were adjusted in Photoshop in layers slightly using the move tool to position them within the compositions vertical axis. A slight amount of blending occurred to smooth out edges, mostly at print output size viewing option.
 

Baroque Hallucination Fantasia Rapture, Rome, June 2019

This image was created on a swelteringly hot late afternoon in Rome. Walking through the Borghese Gardens, just past the Aurelian Wall portal. I noticed the beautiful trees which are quite different than I am used to, over four thousand miles away. I notice how the tops of the trees stand out against the sky, a kind of loose pattern. After a minute of fumbling around estimating the exposure details. I make two or three photos. One of them gets to serve as the single image from which this "quad" is formed. The Baroque aesthetic was of course coursing through my mind as I worked, and certainly is present in the "imperfect pearl", Baroque compositional design.

When I look at this creation, I see a delightful floating garden in the sky, upon which one might pleasantly, if carefully, stroll.

Cosmic Egg, November 2018

Florida Paranormal, 2018

Star Map, May 2018.

This is an image of a supernova at the center of the universe. An exploding star: sending forth cosmic elements which will eventually form new planets and new species of life. And then, after the expanding blossom of the explosion recedes, the dying star will collapse and become a black hole, receding inward and consuming all that surrounds it.

This photograph is a combination of many individual photographs; using my camera I photographed many exposures of the floor of a chapel within Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Next, I combined these images into a single horizontal panorama. This new panorama of the floor in front of me, became my new "master": it was then repeated numerous times, and half of these were reversed, like mirror images. All of these images were then collected into one "canvas" and digitally "stitched" together using Photoshop.

Alchemical Sphere, February 2018

As the Old God Collapses, the New God Emerges, January 2018

"Nothing is new under the sun." Whether the subject is religion, science, or art, all new ideas emerge from the ones left behind. Knowledge, like a river, flows forward from a previous source. New civilizations grow from the cities preceding them; the burnt ashes of forgotten or dying cultures can feed and fertilize new growth. Consider the truth of this statement and remember it as you look at this collection of photographs I have entitled "As the Old God Collapses, the New God Emerges."

This visible, "natural" world we spend our days in is a reflection of a greater reality. As Manly P. Hall stated in his book The Secret Teachings of All Ages (first published in 1928): "The physical nature of the universe is receptive; it is a realm of effects. The invisible causes of these effects belong to the spiritual world. Hence, the spiritual world is the sphere of causation; the material world is the sphere of effects; while the intellectual - or soul - world is the sphere of mediation."

The artist can be a mediator between these spheres, creating images which are reflections and transmissions from a greater reality beyond the clouded spectrum of everyday, half-conscious life.

These images were made from a single double-exposure. In other words, two distinct photographs were combined to create a new source image.

While visiting a large greenhouse/conservatory, I made two photographs. The first photograph was a close-up photo of a large, tropical leaf. The next image was a photo of a different plant, from a greater distance. These two photographs were combined. This new double-exposure became the new source image from which this series was created.

Predator, March 2014

Microflora? Mechanical Flowerhead? New work from the last weeks......

A composite of four digital files, each scanned from the same analog negative, originally exposed using a pinhole lens and a film-based (120 format) camera. Or, in an alternative reality, an actual x-ray of the face of a mechanical flowerhead.

Picket Fence through a Pinhole

New Composite from Recent Work...