Welcome to my photo gallery!

I started out on my photography path 35 years ago using the traditional dark room technologies, I was reintroduced to a whole new way of photography(digital) a mere 11 years ago.

My first steps on the path of analog photography were taken with the wonderfully simple, yet effective Pentax K1000. I currently use both a Pentax K-5 IIs as well as a Ricoh GR.

I use a fully open-source workflow in my RAW to JPEG processes, as well as in my HDR photography.

With HDR I tend to combine 3 to 5 handheld shots of the same subject through careful alignment and tonemapping to attempt to duplicate the dynamic range of the human eye. I want to register what I think I saw and remember, not necessarily what the electronics of my camera dictate I must have seen. I combine my passion of open-source solutions with digital photography and use my camera as outlet for creative energy and my computer to show that it is merely the creativity of the photographer, not the amount of money invested in equipment or software, that counts.

I donate regularly to noteworthy open source projects such as:

LuminanceHDR , an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

PCLinuxOS, a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for x86 desktops or laptops.

UFRaw, a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras.