I currently have four projects in process:

In A Different Light: Infrared Images of Utah’s West Desert
The black and white photographs presented in this study represent a sampling of images I have taken in Utah’s West Desert. In this region the desert mountains are austere, the valleys parched, trees rare, and colors more than occasionally monochromatic.  However, the often dramatic play of light and shadow, clouds and sky, water and rocks are perfectly suited to black & white imagery. These photos were captured with a variety of infrared-sensitive cameras and converted to B&W images.  With infrared B&W photography, skies and water can take on an inky blackness, clouds ‘pop’ in dramatic fashion, foliage becomes milky white and grass is often mistaken for snow.  Depending upon atmospheric conditions, images can be topographically sharp or soft and gauzy with a ghostly dreaminess. Whether it is a calm autumn day on some unnamed peak, a wintry morning in a forgotten desert valley, or a tempestuous spring storm afternoon on the Great Salt Lake, Utah’s West Desert can be a fascinating study for one willing to see things in a different light.

Sandstone and Sky: Known and Unknown Southern Utah
The dual purpose of this study is to not only share the many wonders of southern Utah that are seldom seen (the ‘unknown’), but also to portray differently the icons of this famous region (the ‘known’) that we think we know so well. We have all seen a multitude of classic arch, slot canyon, sandstone mesa and orange hoodoo photographs. They are famous (or at least very recognizable) and rightly so. But can anything more be told about them? I believe so. However, we need to make things compelling; we must approach them thinking differently. Utilizing unusual light, unique angles, interesting techniques, these icons can still be presented with a sense of freshness. These ‘known’ images then, combined with photographs from ‘unknown’ areas, become a new study of sandstone and sky, the known and unknown landscapes of southern Utah.

The Last Inland Sea: Great Salt Lake
A new project on an ancient subject. Utah’s Great Salt Lake is the largest remnant of a huge inland sea that once covered much of western Utah and extended into Nevada and Idaho. Called Lake Bonneville, signs of this prehistoric body of water can be found in the white tufa formations and shoreline “bathtub rings” spotted throughout the West Desert. With its wealth of birdlife, frequent storms, varied islands, history of human activity, and gorgeous sunsets, the Great Salt Lake itself makes for a fascinating photographic study.

35 x 35
Shooting with an Arax 35mm Tilt-Shift lens, I am constraining myself to subjects within 35 miles of Clayhaus homebase. This is a truly different challenge as I branch out in subject matter but confine myself to the "normal" focal length 35mm, albeit with the added twist of the interesting effects that a T-S lens can provide. Images in this portfolio.

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