All the images you see on this web site are created by me. I use two cameras: an 8x10 Deardorff; and also a Canon Rebel XSi Digital camera. For the Deardorff, lenses are a Kodak Ektar 14" lens and a Caltar II Fujinon 240mm f/5.6 lens. My film of choice is still Kodak's Tri-X TXP (320), which I shoot at EI250, developed in HC110(b) at 1:10 if printing with silver gelatin; if the image is for platinum printing, I use D23, a low contrast developer (plantinum printing requires a different tonal range than does silver).

When I print on silver gelatin, I use Bergger's Prestige, a high-silver content fiber paper, in a variety of sizes, from 8x10 to 16x20, and also in 20x24. Larger sizes are available (but not in Bergger paper). The paper is developed in Dektol and all the prints are toned in Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner (KRST). The papers are washed and dried by hanging. On occasion, some prints are spotted.

For the last two years, I have been studying platinum printing with Koichiro Kurita. I have been using normal negative enlargement on Bergger's BPFB-18, a blue-sensitive film. For platinum printing, I use Arches Platine paper and a typical pt-pd sensitizer solution from Bostick and Sullivan. The print is cleared several times in oxalic acid and thoroughly washed to archival standards. I also follow Dan Burkholder's methodology for producing digital negatives on an Epson 2200 printer with Pictorico's OHP Transparency Film.

Images of my platinum prints will be digital photographs of the finished product.