Originally shot on Ektachrome reversal film with a vintage Bolex movie camera, this film was transferred to high-definition video using the latest telecine techniques for full color fidelity, large frame size and the analogue “film look”. Ektachrome reversal motion picture films for 16mm and 8mm cameras have recently been re-introduced by Kodak and are available worldwide…
This short film was shot on Ektachrome Super 8mm reversal stock with a Leicina Super movie camera equipped with an Intervalometer, and then transferred into digital video format before editing and compositing with modern software. Manufactured in the seventies by the world renown Leica Camera company, the Leicina Super Camera & RT-1 Controller was the world’s…
Located in southern Colorado, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is a fascinating juxtaposition of two contrasting ecosystems; the arid high desert floor of the San Luis Valley and the rolling alpine forest and dramatic snow-capped peaks of the Sangre De Cristo mountains. Situated in between are the ghostly and dynamic sand dunes themselves; rising…
Each spring during their annual migration, fantastic sedges of Sandhill Cranes settle in for a few weeks at the confluence of the South and North forks of the Platte River in central Nebraska, on their way north to their summer nesting grounds. Hundreds of thousands of these large and noisy birds spend their days scavenging in…
What is it in the bones of everyday photographs, that give them the power to tell a forgotten story from another time and place with such clarity and imagination? And why, in the imagined visual telling of the story, do those photographs elevate the people and their tales of ordinary life, to an almost mythic status?…
At Project Prepare’s Summer Arts Camp, I collaborated with a group of twenty young artists to create public artwork for our community gardens. Working from my conceptual drawings and paintings, it took about a month of day camp for us to complete this mural for the Foster Elementary School Garden. This short animated film shows the…
For several years as a guest artist for Jefferson County Schools, I worked with young kids in summer workshops and after school art clubs at Foster Elementary School. Together we created public art projects for the school and community gardens, learned a little about the muralist’s creative process and had a lot of fun making these…
Beyond the incredible innovations and creative possibilities of Polaroid cameras and their wonderful instant film, my most nostalgic photographic memory is of the Old-Fashioned Photo Booth. Selfies before Selfies were cool. A Memoir in a Can. Four for a Dollar. Extra Charge for Color. Here’s a few sets of old friends in faraway times, stashed in…
Looking through our family’s photographic archive and trying to select images for my wife’s memorial service, I was struck by the power photography has over the way our brains process old memories fading with the passage of time. Small moments from years earlier shine with an intensity that brings forth a flood of contradictory emotional connections…