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Back at it.

Dave Bangert pulled me from the idled photographers’ bull-pen and asked me to go out to the Tippecanoe County 4-H Fair, for his community journalism project; Based in Lafayette. Here is what I found.

Also posted in Editorial Work, Pets

No rest for the needed..

I made this montage from various photographs made for Purdue University, walk-in clients, and other entities. I work quickly before the decisive moment has passed.   

Click the image to see in detail, thanks for dropping by!

Also posted in Biotech, Commercial photography, Editorial Work, Medical, Pets, Portraits, Purdue

Biomedical and Engineering Research Documentation

I’ve been documenting research and higher education for most of my professional life.

Slice of Life

Missing the days when I looked for “free art” or feature photos as a newspaper photographer, I saw this youngster getting a haircut along with his father.  I walked passed and thought it was a nice slice of life, returned with my camera and captured it.  I gave the Sony A7ii file some post processing to make it look like some pushed TriX would have looked when I was working for a newspaper in 1986.

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Also posted in black and white, Editorial Work

Not a lot of pictures, Fine Photography.

It’s senior portrait season, take a look at my work, it’s refined! My 30 years in the field photographing, industry leaders, or your son or daughter shows!  Often, I am not anymore expensive than those with just months of ‘experience.’

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Telling the story of Engineering and Science

Once again 2016 had me visiting dozens of laboratories to create images to help explain the story of science and engineering.

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Dr. Amy Brewster, Purdue University

Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu Purdue University

Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu, Purdue University

 

Dr. Alexander Chubykin

Dr. Alexander Chubykin, Purdue University

Also posted in Biotech, Commercial photography, Editorial Work, Purdue

Photographing my nephew’s wedding (for fun).

The market for wedding photographers is very saturated.  I started photographing the occasional wedding more than 20 years ago, when my brother in law liked my “gift” photos better than the ones he paid for.  Over the past few years I haven’t had much call to photograph weddings, so much so I get more calls to “fix” wedding photos done by other photographers.  This photographer has photographed three Presidents (for news services), many CEO’s for corporate reports, the Dali Lama, along with the first and last men to walk on the moon (in one photo with a University President).  I am called on for my skills when people can’t roll the dice.0006Ceas-30031Ceas-20020Ceas-2 0021Ceas-20012Ceas-2

 

Fine Portraits on Film in the year 2015?

I do plenty of fine work with my digital equipment.  That said, I hang many prints in my south facing windows.  I have some silver halide (black and white) prints that are some 50 years old, along with some of my own that are past a decade.  They do not degrade, which is something that can’t be said for color and especially color “giclee” (inkjet) prints.  I will continue to make color prints, but always tell the client that UV glass is needed, and display near the sun, should in all cases be avoided.

If you have the inclination, I can, and still do make traditional (silver halide) Black and White Selenium toned prints. I do more than “take pictures,” I make “portraits for the ages,” in more ways than one. These prints also just have a resonance and depth that is very hard if not impossible to beat with more modern digital capture and printing.

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Also posted in black and white, Editorial Work, Portraits, portraits for the ages