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Besides shooting commercially for over 25 years, I use photography as my personal medium for artistic expression. Before the digital era began, I shot large-format black & white and did all my own processing and printing. I was a student of the Ansel Adam's Zone System of black & white photography. I attended a Yosemite workshop, a wonderful experience that would have been even more so if I had been there two years earlier, when Ansel was still alive and teaching the classes.
The personal work that gained attention was not my black & white work but my color series of walls. I began shooting walls in the early 1980's and still shoot them today. Until recently, the walls were shot with a 4x5 camera on color transparency film, and large, Cibachrome prints were produced by commercial labs. After shooting walls around Texas, Mexico, and Louisiana, I got the opportunity to photograph the Ultimate Wall, the Berlin Wall, in 1989 as it was being torn down. I was sponsored by a gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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