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All images featured on my website are available as fine-art photographic prints. My goal is to represent the scene as closely as possible at the moment the exposure was taken, while preserving the mood of the landscape. With state of the art printing tools producing the highest quality of photographic prints available, my prints obtain incredible fidelity in sharpness, color, and tonal range.
Through a carefully managed digital darkroom, my prints retain this fidelity for all enlargement sizes offered. This is a huge advantage over enlarged images using traditional optical enlargers. With optically enlarged images it is very difficult to maintain the vibrancy and contrast found in digital prints. Every digital print is carefully prepared with many hours of personal touch to ensure each final print meets my high level of quality.
The fine-art prints are created with a digital enlarger, either a LightJet or Chromira. The enlarger exposes photographic paper, that is then processed in traditional photographic chemicals. This silver halide process creates a true continuous-tone print. The main difference between the enlargers is how they expose the paper. The Lightjet uses lasers, and the Chromira uses state-of-the-art light emitting diodes. Our master printer will select the best digital printer to match the color gamut of each individual print.
Crystal Archive
Both the LightJet and Chromira expose the glossy Fuji Crystal Archive paper. Crystal Archive prints of my images display beautifully up to and beyond 20 x 30 inches. Independent tests suggest that Fuji Crystal Archive prints in normal display conditions will last 60 to 70 years before noticeable fading, more than two times longer than Ilfochrome prints.
Print Sizes
The print sizes I offer are listed in inches and represent the industry standard photographic paper size. The actual image size will be slightly smaller than the listed paper size due to the difference in aspect ratios between the image and the paper. The longest dimension of the image will fill the longest dimension of the paper, while allowing for a small border.
Matting and Framing
Mats are made of acid-free archival museum board, with all acid-free materials used for hinges, corners, and backing. The mats are professionally cut to match each print. The color of the window mat is white. The frames are custom fabricated from a pleasing neutral gray metal. The frame’s neutral gray is approximately 18% gray (
). Framing takes an additional 7 to 10 days. Prints are also sold as print-only, and do not include a frame or mat.