Artist Statement

    Thank you for taking a moment to read my Artist Statement! I have been a professional landscape and travel photographer for nine years and there isn’t anything that I love more than the challenges that it brings. I have an AAS degree in Professional Photography and I am a member of The North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA), The Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

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    My formal professional training included both film and digital photography in a full range of photographic subjects, from landscape, portraits, commercial photography, to weddings and events. After college I worked for a commercial photographer of note, and while his genius and skills were essential to my career, I decided that I would prefer to create my own art and went out on my own.

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    Photography, for me, is about the experience. I demand that each encounter I have with a subject be an emotional one and a two-way street. A beautiful landscape or scene should strike me emotionally and in return, I support it by creating an expressive fine art print that captures a viewer’s attention. While most of my work focuses on The United States, I’ve been fortunate enough to have worked extensively throughout Venice Italy, Iceland, Japan, and The Azores Islands as well. For 2024 and 2025, I will continue working in the American Southwest and Oaxaca Mexico.. and

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    All of my photography and printing is being done with digital equipment. Even though I have considerable experience with film and the darkroom, for me digital photography has become the new standard. I will always love and respect film photography, but I feel that when done correctly, digital photography has reached the same quality as film. I don’t consider an image complete as soon as the shutter is pressed. A digital image, like a film image, must go through a post-production to ensure that what you are seeing is exactly what I was feeling. An unfinished image printed straight from the camera is just that, unfinished.

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    I shoot with Canon 5D Mk2 and Mk4 digital cameras, using lens ranging from 17mm to 800mm. I use very little flash. After the RAW file is download from the camera, I make several adjustments if needed, using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Most images get adjustments made in exposure, contrast and saturation. I do all my own printing on an Epson 3880 Pro printer using Epson’s Velvet Fine Art Paper and Epson Ultra-Premium Photo Paper Luster, which produces accurate color and sharp archival prints.

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    From the satisfaction that I get exploring and photographing around the American West, my promise to you is; to produce the very finest quality and emotional fine art photography possible. I made these photographs for both your and my enjoyment!

    I want to change the way you see American Southwest and Venice Italy. I love what I do!

   Tommy