It is the magic of how light falls on a subject, the freezing of a moment in time, the drama and human warmth of an image and its emotional impact along with the ability to manipulate the many variables available in the darkroom that make photography so enthralling.

Digital photography is something I am now using for fun, personal documentation, and sometimes for artistic images.  It holds great promise though I still revere the special beauty of the black/white film and silver paper image.

I have been fascinated by the effects of platinum/palladium printing with its wide tonal range, the beauty of the brush strokes, the effects on many varieties of paper, and the use some of these images in collage, which  opens up other possibilities.

The photographs on this site represent several areas of interest:  rural Spain, rural life in Appalachia, Israel, China, libraries and their inhabitants, musicians teaching, portraits, and cats.