Some call me a painterly photographer, partly due to the influence of my BFA in Painting from Mass Art. If this is true then I am also, at least partly, an “en plein aire” photographer searching for open and natural light. As a child, my father would take me for short drives to the beach in Revere and Mystic Lakes where we would draw trees and ocean waves crashing to the shore. Today, I shoot photos to capture photographic moments of impact in many of the same and similar places. My panoramas printed on large canvases place the viewer in these printed scenes with multiple focal points, which in turn result in multiple momentous impacts. Although I shoot many non-panoramas as well, oftentimes while photographing landscapes I am no longer satisfied with the single shot. “The gasp comes from the girth”, as it were. All of my panoramas are multiple-shot sequences which are stitched together using Photoshop Merge. The images reflect the process of me panning and tilting my camera to capture the scene, much like a cinematographer would capture a movie scene, then printed with pigment inks on archival inkjet photo paper or canvas. |
