My images are available for purchase. I use all archival materials. Prints are $60 for 8x10, $69 for 11x14 or 13x19. Shipping charges are extra. Prints on canvas, metal, wood, or acrylic require research to provide a quote. Contact me at eorkin@gmail.com or text or call me at 603-661-3305. Thank you.

Artist's Statement: For years I strove for the iconic photographic “capture,” requiring me to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right equipment, the right light, and with the right settings on the camera. Patience and skill were not enough; money and luck played outsized roles. Most photographers have few iconic images in their portfolios. The most skillful, patient, and well-heeled have relatively more, but luck looms large even for the best.

As an art form, photography has been valued for freezing the timeless beauty and emotions of a captured moment. The digital darkroom, e.g., Photoshop, has greatly expanded the photographers’ creative pallet, breaking the bonds of an image to time and place, enabling the creation of new art. For some photographers such radical departures from images as they emerge from the camera borders on heresy. Especially so with wildlife photography. Others assert that a photographic image can be the starting point of a new art form.

As my post-processing skills grew, the traditional boundaries of photography seemed arbitrary and constraining. I discovered ways of working with images that allow for artistic expressions bounded only by my imagination and digital darkroom skills. So armed, I can turn day into night, lifelessness into vibrancy, and “failed” photographs into new art.

Many of the images on this site appear pretty much as they were shot. Others would not exist without digital manipulation. Taken together, they represent a history of photography. Not the history, but one trajectory that has been enabled by technology and an expansive definition of photography as an art form.

I shoot with primarily with DSLRs, but also use my iPhone and my drone. Subjects include wildlife, macro shots, architectural elements, landscapes, and portraits.