Originally photographed in the 1970's and 80's, three portfolios of 24 prints were printed in 2008 at 20"x16" and are titled, signed numbered and dated on the verso.
The Elk Mountain Range portfolio is a series of B&W aerial photographs of the backcountry surrounding Aspen, Colorado. It grew out of a project to create an atlas of photographs to assist the volunteers of Mountain Rescue Aspen in planning rescues of people who experience the dark side of the mountains and also to help helicopter pilots who were unfamiliar with the area to understand the challenges of flying at high elevation in rugged terrain.
Announcing the new 24 print 20″ x 16″ edition of silver gelatin prints of my aerial photographs of the Elk Mountain Range. In 1982 I photographed the mountains surrounding Aspen Colorado from a light plane. The photographs were made for Mountain Rescue-Aspen. MRA is “A volunteer organization dedicated to saving lives through backcountry rescue and …
I left college knowing a few things: I didn’t want to live in Schenectady or Cincinnati and I still was fascinated by photography and technology and loved experimentation.
How in the hell did I do that? Sometimes when I look back at an older photogram or print that I made I wonder how I got an effect or what kind of process I was using. Fortunately I have my own personal time machine. It works some of the time. It is pretty simple. …
I had never before photographed from a plane but I quickly learned a lot about aerial photography and a little about flying in a small plane. It was exciting and beautiful.
