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BIOTECHNICAL DATA:

All images displayed at this site were taken with a Sony DSC-V1, 5MP digital camera and are full frame at high resolution and converted to 300 dpi, unless otherwise noted. Camera was set to aperture priority for f8 at ISO 100, with individual adjustments to the exposure index of EV between -.03 to -0.7 in accordance to the histogram display and desired effects wanted.

Back at the digital darkroom, all images are adjusted using levels, curves, and colour corrected, then balanced for proper brightness and contrast. Program used is Photoshop v5.5.

Prior to posting any colour image, it is converted to CMYK to normalize the saturated colours of an RGB mode and then changed back to RGB.


BIOGRAPHY:

Born in Hamburg, Germany (June 25) my parents emigrated to the United States in 1956 and briefly settled in New York. A year later we traveled across the country using HWY 66 of which I have vague memories. We settled in Los Angeles before moving to the Bay Area. Since then I have returned to Germany to live and work there. Now that I am married and have two children, and live in El Sobrante, a small community in the Bay Area.


PHOTOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES:

We must remember that what we photograph has had an influence to our own past, so permit me to list the names of those who have walked before me and influenced how I view the world through the camera lens. The names are in no particular order.

Irving Penn, Eugene Atget, August Sander, Dorothea Lange, Helmut Newton, Minor White, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind, Edward S. Curtis, Walker Evens, Robert Capra, George Hurrell, Jarl Blossfeldt and Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee. Another name one should not forget is Jerry Uelsmann who did it all in the darkroom since Photoshop had not been invented.


ARTIST INFLUENCES:

Currently under development


PUBLICATIONS:

Some of my previous commercial fine art photography:

Art of The Trout Fly, Chronicle Books, 2004 (second edition)
Hallmark Merchandise, Hallmark, 2000-2001
Trout Flies, Calendar, FireFly Books, 1999
Trout Flies, Calendar, Chapters Publishing, 1997
Trout Flies, Calendar, Chapters Publishing, 1996
History of Fishing Flies, Odysseus Editions, 1995
Nymphs, Odysseus Editions, Odysseus Editions, 1995
Trout Flies, Calendar, Chapters Publishing, 1995
Modern Fly Lines, Odysseus Editions, 1994
The Professionals Favorite Flies, Vol. II, Odysseus Editions, 1994
Trout Flies, Calendar, Chapters Publishing, 1994
The Professionals Favorite Flies, Vol. I, Odysseus Editions, 1993
Art of The Trout Fly, Calendar, Chronicle Books, 1991
Art of The Trout Fly, Calendar, Chronicle Books, 1990
An Anglers Album, Rizzoli Books, 1990
Art of The Trout Fly, Chronicle Books, 1988 (first edition)