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Midway through the summer of 2000 I laid my Olympus SLR to rest and took up the challenge of digital. The future is digital, I do not see the advent of the medium in the same terms as the invention of photography but rather in having a similar impact to the invention of the 35mm camera in 1925. There has and still is a lot of talk about the comparatively low quality image (size) of digital cameras in comparison to 35mm. But this was the same argument in 1925 when the advantages of the inferior camera/negative size led to the 'new objectivity' movement in Europe and to modern documentary practice.

Much of my previous, non-digital work was based around diptychs, triptychs and longer consecutive groupings of images. My current work deals with similar themes that of landscape, scale, time and vision. I'm seeing with the same eyes but through a different lens.

Cape Cod, MA, USA (35mm)

These images of Canyons, Zion and Bryce in Utah and the Grand Canyon, North Rim, in Arizona were originated in June 2002. In their printed form the 'Narrows' in Zion Canyon is a metre in length, 'Douglas Firs, Navajo Loop in Bryce Canyon is a metre in height and the Grand Canyon, a merging of sunrise and sunset is 1½ metres in length. All are printed at 2880 dpi with no image loss.