An Ongoing Project

NightScapes

Right Side of the Brook

11" x 14"

C-Print

        NightScapes is a series of experimental photographs that was my senior thesis in college.  It is an ongoing series that I believe I will continue experimenting with throughout my entire life.  For me it was about finding a place in nature that hasn't been touched by man.  That the night has a beauty all it's own. The kind of beauty we didn't know was there and that the naked eye cannot see. I have been slowly scanning in all my film images to create a digital library of all my work.  This portfolio is also a work in progress as I continue to scan in my other NightScapes and as I progressively shoot more.  I still want to carry on this series with film but have decided to also experiment in a digital format as well. Click HERE to view my NightScapes Portfolio and to read my artist statement about these experimental photographs.

        

Check Out My Portfolio In Progress

               

Tuna Factory

11" x 14"

C - Print

Scopello, Sicily

               
            All my work up until recently was film based.  I love shooting film.  It is how I was taught and there is something amazing about being able to create an image in the darkroom; which is why I fell in love with Photography in the first place.  My love for the darkroom is still there, but times have changed, and I can't always get to a dark room, so I have gone digital.  That doesn't mean I don't shoot film anymore, especially large format, I am just keeping pace with the rest of the world.  Over the past 7 months I have been scanning in all my film prints so I can have a digital portfolio.  But when I got my new computer somehow, someway, my external hard drive ended up being wiped of all information.  So I am slowly starting the process over again. I'm re-scanning all my work again, so as of now I only have a few images up, but there will be more to come! Take a look at the beginnings of my Sicily Portfolio. :)  Click Here to See my SICILY PORTFOLIO

Getting Back to Business

        

Paugussett Rope Swing

Digital C-Print

         
          After some major set backs since my last post, I finally was able to dump some recently shot images.  I shot this while hiking in Paugussett state forest one afternoon. I am particularly drawn to this image for different reasons.  I am drawn to the rich colors, the over all composition, and  how any one that sees this image can find a way to relate to it.  Whether it be a pastime that they enjoyed when they were young or a subliminal message that they may find with in the image itself. There will be more to come shortly now that I am back up and running! 

Rejuvenation

Golden Sunset of Siracusa

11" x 14"

C - Print

Siracusa, Sicily

Sometimes life gives you a little nudge at what may seem like the most unexpected times but ends up being when you really need it the most.

I have finally figured out that I may not know exactly where I am going with my art work or my life but to get where I eventually want to be means I have to stop making excuses and just go out and do what I love to do.

Recently I was given the opportunity to participate in a project that was being put together by a professor at the University of Hartford Art School.  They are putting together a published book "10 Years of UMass & Hartford Art School in Sicily".  Myself along with many other HAS Alum's had taken a Travel & Photo/Illustration class during undergrad that gave us the opportunity to travel the island of Sicily for 10 days.  All former students were able to submit a piece of work from Sicily and a current piece of art work. 

This project has rejuvenated me in so many ways.  I am making a digital portfolio of all my past work, which was all film; 35mm and large format.  I have a new camera, a Canon 5D Mark II, and have been going out shooting everything and anything trying to find what my new focus will be.  Plus, I am creating a blog where I will have my different portfolios available.  Being a photographer is who I am.  I'm not interested in traveling to places just to say I traveled there.  I want to show people the world in a way that they have never seen it before.