HELLO, EVERYONE

I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A PERSONAL THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO STOPS BY MY WEBSITE.

New news about my photography is that one of my night sky images, “MIlky Way Over Farm with Hay Bales” will appear on the cover of the winter issue of ‘‘The Annals of Iowa.” To fit the work into the required portrait format of the cover art, the image was cropped from a horizontal to vertical format. This led to the loss of the large meteor on the right side of the image. However, I feel that the image remains compelling with the foreground illuminated by a quarter moon, which had risen about one hour before image capture time. The moon remained out of the scene, lying to the left of the image. The cropped image is seen below the un-cropped version.

Meteor, Milky Way over Farm with Hay Bales

Image, cropped for the winter 2024 cover of The Annals of Iowa.

Milky Way over Farm with Hay Bales

In addition, to the above news, the University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art is acquiring several portfolios of my work, including my gum bichromate printed series BEFORE DARK as well as two series THE SECRET FARM and DISSERENDIPITY, which are all silver gelatin prints.

My show closed at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA on 27 August, 2023. It was well received by the viewers according to all reports from museum staff. The show was viewed by more than 19,000 individuals during its four week run. Following the show, the Figge Museum acquired two prints from the show, Neowise Comet over Corn Field and Meteor, Milky Way over Farm.