Photography


Molecular photography captures a world invisible to the naked eye…It  opens the mysteries to molecules and cells.  It is art based on reality, not an artist’s imagined representation.  Images tell a story or act as a portrait.  They may even communicate scientific information visually so it is more easily understood, then it becomes a teaching tool.

John Naisbitt  ~ High Tech, High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning

INNER SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY began for me when I was exploring the cellular domains of human blood cells.  I captured them with a camera atop a light microscope watching their squiggles and choreography going after a foreign invader.  I watched them tackle hard plastic beads and then I saw beyond cells to the molecules that made them up.

Molecules of minerals. Vitamins and herbals, elementals and essentials – all revealed characteristic patterns carrying hints of their behavior.

I saw cells grow up and break down.  I saw grape juice be turned into wine.  What miracles abound! 

And always the inner views were breath-taking.  My alter ego, the cellular mythologist, would say that the molecules of life are hidden in the sacred ways and art of our ancient ancestors.

and yet, for sure, we can see that beauty lurks in every glass of wine. That spirit resides there.

For your viewing and tasting pleasure – to see WINE UP Close through the end of May.

WHERE: Hope & Grace Tasting Salon Yountville, CA

These pages of photographs are of mostly wines.  See if you can detect any clues in the patterns.

Portfolio of current tangible inventory, most  are on display at hope & grace and can be purchased there.

Tech Talk

HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE TAKEN Many of the photographs on this website were taken with an interference light microscope which is basically a light microscope equipped with two prisms. The prisms break white light into its rainbow of colors. The material on the glass microscope slide that I am photographing also may refract the light. The prisms add another dimension, beauty, texture and visibility to the stuff of life. I shoot the most dramatic view, the most typical and the most unusual. The forms and shapes are a result of the chemical nature and ‘collaboration’ of the molecules in the wine or substance photographed. Most would be colorless except for the prismatic display of colors, my ‘painting with light.’ All photographs through the microscope are taken with 35 mm film (yes, film). I have a few original Cibachrome or Ilfachrome prints which are made directly from slide film, no computer manipulation.

Photographs of wine have taken honors in the NIKON Small World and OLYMPUS Bioscapes competitions. However as film is becoming obsolete we take advantage of digital expression to produce all other types of prints – photographic prints and giclee reproductions on fine art paper or canvas. Photographs of scenery and the visible world are taken with a Canon digital camera.

Impressions of wine through a microscope capture unique moments in the life of a wine and  offer a unique contemporary view of life.

I accept new photographic commissions and would like to talk to you about your ideas. Email me or call to set up a time to talk.

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Custom photographic prints are available