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Welcome to my photography site. I photograph both above and below the surface of the water. My wife and I live in Southeastern Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia PA and Wilmington DE.
We enjoy scuba diving. We do most of our local diving off the coast of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia . In addition to local diving, scuba diving has taken us to many different, and a few remote, parts of the world.
The images seen here are made with a variety of tools. Above the water, I most often use a DSLR with lens ranging from 12mm to 500mm. My current DSLR is the Nikon D200. When I shoot film above water I use a Nikon N90s. Underwater I shot film; using a Nikonos V and the N90s in an Ikelite housing; both with Ikelite strobes.
The editing of my image files, be they directly from a digital camera or from a scanned slide, is limited to minor enhancement. By enhanced I mean the image was changed by performing functions analogous to what traditional photographers do in the dark room. These could include changing brightness, contrast, color saturation, or cropping. This is what many are calling the digital dark room.
Using
photo editing software to enhance an image is much different than using it for
image manipulation. Manipulation takes the use of editing software tools one big
step further--actually changing the original scene by adding
elements of composition. And while I'm on a full disclosure theme, all of the wildlife images on these pages are
of animals in the wild unless explicitly identified as being a captive subject.
I have attempted to keep the organization and content of this site simple so that the pages load fairly quickly. Like my photography itself, this site will remain a work in progress. So you will have to bookmark this site and come back and check-out what's new.
I hope you enjoy your stay here. Now you have to make a choice to visit above or under water galleries.