I began to make pinhole photographs on my 50th birthday in 2004. In June of that year, f295.org was founded, and I found a community of supportive, knowledgeable photographers. I assembled a darkroom, and have explored as many avenues of lensless photography as I can find.

In 2008, I purchased a Nuarc plate burner, and I have begun a serious exploration of historical and alternative printing techniques. I do not own a high-end inkjet printer, so my contact negatives are made in-camera or by the enlargement by reversal process described by Liam Lawless in the World Journal of Post Factory Photography, and updated by Ed Buffaloe on the Unblinking Eye website.

My large format cameras include many 4x5 pinhole cameras made from foamcore or plywood. I built an 8x10 view camera from a back and bellows that I purchased on line. I built a 100 mm foamcore 8x10. Lately I have been using popcorn tin cameras with a cylindrical film plane. I shoot Arista APHS ortho lith film, and develop it by inspection in Soemarko LC-1. I also built a 12"x20" pinhole camera out of black foamcore. It has a 327 mm focal length and a 327 mm radius cylindrical film plane. It uses a .600 mm electron microscope aperture, for a ratio of f542.

I recently discovered carbon printing. My first attempts used the wonderful carbon tissue made by Bostick & Sullivan in Santa Fe. I have recently poured my third batch of my own tissue, and I am working out the bugs. I hope to make some bodacious 12x20 pinhole carbon prints in the coming months.