Double exposures, triple exposures, quadruple exposures, abstractions, confusions, distractions, mistakes, happy accidents, orchestrated layers, image x image…basically a collection of multiples shot with my Nikon FM2n, Olympus Trip 35, and Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim cameras.
Some moments in time I have captured with human beings, either in portraits or street photography.
I have always loved to photograph power lines. If I can insert a power line into an image, I will usually do so. There’s something about the way the lines grid and cut through the image, providing a way to shift away the focus of the eye when looking at an image. It kind of adds some abstract photographic “noise” to the image that I find incredibly pleasing. These are a few of such images over the last decade plus.
In December of 2022, I went to Mexico City for the first time. I quickly became smitten with this magical city. I walked eighty-two miles in eight days, taking fotos, absorbing, eating amazing food, etc. In February of 2024, I returned for nine days of more of the same. This visit was over a hundred miles of endless flaneuring, cameras in hand, blistered feet, sore 50 something knees, a strip of sunburned neck where sunscreen was missed. Of over seven hundred images I took on the two trips, these are a small selection of them—more are scattered in some other sections.
Pretty much as the title says—the city at night, all neon drenched, shadowy, and romantic.
There's something about a vacant parking lot or structure that makes me think I have stepped into a dystopian future. Concrete, artificial fluorescent lights, and the emptiness of space combine to create a lonely vision of a stark dystopian world.
I have been taking photographs of old movie theatres across America and in other countries for decades. Some are still operating, many more are vacant or being used for something other than screening films. In 2011 I decided to re-shoot these unused theatres across my home state of Oklahoma with my Hasselblad 500 C/M. I spent well over a year criss-crossing the state, trying to capture every theatre and drive-in that I knew of. My hope is that by exposing the harsh, unforgiving neglect of these structures in vibrant, beautiful color, I can shed new light on architectural gems that were once the focal point of their communities.
In early 2017 I went to Paris and lugged my Hasselblad 500 C/M all over the city for ten straight days. Here are a few of the images from that trip and a bit about that first photo. The carrousel de Paris was spinning quite fast and I couldn’t make out any of what was written on it. As usual with me, I was shooting with my Hassy handheld and I don’t like taking more than one image of my subject—I get one crack at it. I guessed at when it looked like more type was spinning by and this is the photo I got. It couldn’t have been more perfect if the carrousel was not moving at all. I’m tremendously proud of that one and my photographic instincts.
I moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 2019. I had some carefree months living downtown, surrounded by old brick buildings, a bustling urban environment and was taking a lot of photographs. Then we had a little pandemic and my desire to take photos was crushed. But, summer of 2021, I picked up my cameras and fell back in love with looking through the lens, the sound they make, & the way they feel in my hands. It will always be love.
I was born in Muskogee and raised in rural Oklahoma. Although I’ve lived in a lot of other cities in my life and despite the overabundance of a certain type of political fanatic who run amok, Oklahoma will always be something I’m proud to call home. I consider myself a throwback, early 20th century type of Okie, part agrarian socialist, part independent freethinker. Here’s some images from the thousands of fotos of Oklahoma that I’ve taken.
I am not Catholic. I have never even gone to a Mass. But, as I grew up in Southern Baptist churches in various small towns in Oklahoma, I was pulled toward religious and Catholic iconography like a magnet.
During breaks at work, I often go on walks in the Kansas City, Kansas Strawberry Hill neighborhood. On these walks, I noticed in many yards references to their Croatian Catholic heritage with small statues, often surrounded by flowers or plants. I decided it might be a fun project worthy of a name, hence Catholic Gardens was started. These are images from my walks in Strawberry Hill with some other Catholic related shots from the last couple of years. Mexico City was a great place to add to Catholic Gardens.
I lived in Los Angeles, California from 2011 to 2018. Here are some photographs I took in Los Angeles and California when I lived there and on return visits.
Tulsans have long been connected to the Arkansas River. While the city has grown steadily along the shoreline, the river remains largely unchanged. Perhaps without realizing it, the photographic subjects are connecting with the river in the most traditional way possible: fishing. Fishing the Arkansas River is an honest, spare, direct look at the river and the people who gravitate to its waters.
A collection of half frame images that create natural diptychs made in 35mm frames. All images made with a 1970s era Olympus Pen FT and a pair of early 2000s Golden Half cameras.
