"Advance-Rumley Plowing"
11"x 14" photo in 16" x 20" Frame
Sepia toned silver gelatin print

"Case Steam Engines"
11"x 14" photo in 16" x 20" Frame
Sepia toned silver gelatin print

"Western Maryland #6"
11"x 14" photo in 16" x 20" Frame
Sepia toned silver gelatin print

"LB Foste"
11"x 14" photo in 16" x 20" Frame
Sepia toned silver gelatin print

"Grates"
11"x 14" photo in 16" x 20" Frame
Sepia toned silver gelatin print

"Wheel Hub #5"
11"x 14" photo in 16" x 20" Frame
Sepia toned silver gelatin print

Biography:

I do black-and-white photography.  I think it is more profound and abstract than color.   Printing is an important, challenging part of the process.   Photos are archival.  In the last several years I have been sepia toning some of my photos, notably the ones of entire locomotives and tractors, lending them an antique “feeling.”

One of my subjects is antique farm machinery. My photos of it say something about an era of primitive technology and naked, unshielded power and force.

My other favorite subject is railroad locomotives and artifacts.   In 1979, I saw my first steam railroad excursion.  A steam locomotive gives an incredible impression: the earth shakes as it passes, and it is unbelievably noisy with the urgent blast of the whistle and the deafening roar of the mechanical parts.  Besides noise at the painful level, the “magic” of steam is that the moving parts are exposed, so one can see everything.

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