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Dye Transfer Prints

My dye transfer prints are all made using original Kodak papers and dyes. The paper stock is double- or triple-weight fiber base with an air-dried F surface. The prints have at least 1" of white paper around the image area, and I title and sign the prints in archival ink under the image.

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Empire State Building, NYC ~ 1999

(IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
The Empire State Building looms in this street-level view looking straight up the sides. At night, the building takes on soft olive hues from the surrounding streetlights, while the sky glows a dark and subtle blue. In stark contrast, the upper stories of the building are hotly decorated by cherry red-white floodlights. (243K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 18.5" high (image area)

Beckman Auditorium Columns, Pasadena CA ~ 1972

(IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
Illuminated by contrasting mercury streetlights and incandescent decorative lamps, the normally white Beckman Auditorium glowed with flaming oranges and reds and icy steel blues and cyans.(209K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 18.5" high (image area)

Olympic Stadium, Montreal Canada ~ 2001
This is no trick of the lens nor Photoshop. The form of the strangely curved and soaring tower of the Olympic Stadium is entirely real. A futuristic scene in dark, ruddy browns, icy blue-whites, and pale turquoise. (172K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 14" wide by 19" high (image area)

Trojan Plant Cooling Tower, OR ~ 1977

(IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
The steam plumes from this nuclear plant created billowing cumulus-like puffs that seem to blend naturally into the late afternoon sky. The waning rays of the sun cast everything in warm tones of yellows, oranges, and olives, save for the insistent dusky blue of the distant sky. (168K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)

Trojan Nuclear Plant Cooling Tower, OR ~ 1992
The preceding photograph was made shortly after the Trojan plant was commissioned. This one was made shortly before it was decommissioned. The mood and colors stand in contrast, as well. The tower's aircraft warning lights bathe the tower and plume in a brilliant hellish red and orange glow that stands out against dusky blue-purple clouds. Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area) (184K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 7.5" wide by 10" high (image area)

Power Lines Sunset, L.A. ~ 1972

(IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.)
Smoggy sunsets can make for lovely light. The last rays of the setting sun tint the sky and the landscape a panoply of lovely warm hues ranging from deep purple-magentas in the shadows through reds and oranges, shading into a delicate lavender sky. (94 K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)

Lake District at Night, Oakland CA ~ 1994

(IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
Nighttime over Oakland, a cityscape portrayed in the darkest greens and browns and most brilliant cyans, oranges, and reds. A lone plane streaks the sky with a thin brushstroke of light. (193K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 19" high (image area)

Chicago Skyline and Trains ~ 2000

(IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
This formal composition contrasts an almost ethereal dusky blue-white Chicago skyline against the earthly tans, slate blues, and blacks of the rail system. (274K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 14" wide by 19" high (image area)

Chemical Plant at Night, Kalama WA ~1992

(IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
Sodium vapor lamps illuminate this distant chemical plant and give the sky a sulfurous yellow glow, accented by hot-red safety lights atop the plant's structures. (172K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)

Interstate Bridges on Columbia River, OR ~ 1990

(IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
Forest greens and deep cyan sky and water contrast with the soothing greens and tans of the Interstate Bridges that connect Oregon and Washington. (266K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 8.5" high (image area)

Interstate Bridges, Portland OR ~ 1990

(IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
The sea-green girderwork of the Interstate Bridges shines brightly in the deep blue summer sky of Portland. (221K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 6.5" high (image area)

Infrared Telescope, Mauna Kea HI ~ 2000
Looking upward from the base of the infrared telescope on Mauna Kea, one sees the nearly fluorescent orange paintwork of the telescope's supports mirrored as yellows and browns in the observatory's dome. (201K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 19" high (image area)

IRTF Dome, Mauna Kea HI ~ 2000

(IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
The dome of the InfraRed Telescope Facility is lined with foil to suppress radiation that would blind this heat-sensitive telescope. It catches the daylight in wonderfully textured shades of steel grays and blues and subtle delicate browns. (205K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 14.5" wide by 19" high (image area)

Marconi Transmitter, Cape Cod ~ 2004

(IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.)
A remembrance of things past, in somber brick-reds, yellow and tans. This is all that remains of Marconi's great transmitter. Still there's a hint of life in the shadows. (300K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)

Moon and Fireworks, Vancouver EXPO -- 1986
This strikingly surreal and colorful image looks like a computer-generated composite, but it's entirely real. Hot pink fireworks fill half the dark green-black sky with incredibly delicate tracery. A full moon hangs in the sky over the geodesic roof of the entrance to the 1986 World's Fair. (289K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 13" high (image area)

"FUN", Great America Park, Santa Clara CA -- 1978

(IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.)
Bright reds, magentas, yellows and blues make up this strong image of a neon sign at the amusement park. The intense shadows and strong lighting make it appear three-dimensional, while the overall texture of the film grain lends a pointillistic quality. (100K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 12.5" high (image area)

Rusted Grate and Refraction, Ann Arbor -- 1972
This is an image of a three or four inch section of expanded metal screen. The blue and white squiggles come from light shining through windows glazed with rippled privacy glass. Primary colors are blue and pumpkin yellow, with some deep purple. (192K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 18.5" wide by 15" high (image area)

Solar One, Barstow CA -- 1982

(IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.)
This is a formal composition of a very surreal scene I chanced upon in the Mojave desert. When the boiler isn't operating, the computer-controlled mirrors of the Solar One power station redirect all their beams into two spots in the air on either side of the boiler tower, to avoid an accidental melt-down.
Pale blue sky, and sandy tans dominate the color scheme. (141K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 19" high (image area)

Transamerica Pyramid, S.F. -- 1976

(IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.)
This nighttime photograph of the Transamerica building seems to have true vanishing point perspective. The coloration in this print is both more subtle and more variegated than the monitor can convey. There are myriad delicate nuances of cyans, yellows, salmons and pinks playing over the different facets of the grey concrete facing and in the windows. (163K JPEG)
Dye transfer print: 18.5" wide by 15" high (image area)

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Weismann Art Museum, St. Paul MN ~ 1999
The Cubist-inspired facets of the Weismann Museum break up reflections of the sunset-lit clouds and sky into dappled panels of pale blues, dusky purples, burnt oranges and near-blacks. (381K JPEG)

Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints

Walk/Don't Walk, Pasadena CA ~ 1972
This long exposure caught both the green and red illuminated tubes of a crossing sign, creating a visual illusion the eye could never see. Where the tubes overlapped in the exposure, green light combined with red to create various shades of oranges and yellows in a fascinating pattern of stripes and swirls around the bends of the tubes. (262K JPEG)

Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints

Brass Horn, Pasadena CA ~ 1972
Light flows like molten metal across this corroded musical instrument, illuminating it in radiant yellows, oranges, coppers, golds, and siennas. (258K JPEG)

Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints

Corrugated Galvanized Steel, Julian CA ~ 1990
Corrosion creates an intricate pattern of colors and textures on the blue crystalline zinc coating on the steel. Streaks of vermillion and orange mix with intricate textures in the same hues. Warm tones and cold tones are mirrored in a counterpoint composition. (291K JPEG)

Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints

Bank of America HQ, S.F. ~ 1978
A view straight up the side of the Bank of America headquarters at night becomes an abstract composition in poster-paint colors of jade green, ruddy orange, yellow, and deep saturated blue. (111K JPEG)

Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints

Ft. Peck Dam Spillway, MT ~ 1980
After dusk the dam's spillway catches the twilight sky, picking up tones of purples, pinks, and blues in a marbled pattern. (229K JPEG)

Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints

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	Empire State Building, NYC ~ 1999 (IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) The Empire State Building looms in this street-level view looking straight up the sides. At night, the building takes on soft olive hues from the surrounding streetlights, while the sky glows a dark and subtle blue. In stark contrast, the upper stories of the building are hotly decorated by cherry red-white floodlights. (243K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 18.5" high (image area)
	Beckman Auditorium Columns, Pasadena CA ~ 1972 (IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) Illuminated by contrasting mercury streetlights and incandescent decorative lamps, the normally white Beckman Auditorium glowed with flaming oranges and reds and icy steel blues and cyans.(209K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 18.5" high (image area)
	Olympic Stadium, Montreal Canada ~ 2001 This is no trick of the lens nor Photoshop. The form of the strangely curved and soaring tower of the Olympic Stadium is entirely real. A futuristic scene in dark, ruddy browns, icy blue-whites, and pale turquoise. (172K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 14" wide by 19" high (image area)
	Trojan Plant Cooling Tower, OR ~ 1977 (IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) The steam plumes from this nuclear plant created billowing cumulus-like puffs that seem to blend naturally into the late afternoon sky. The waning rays of the sun cast everything in warm tones of yellows, oranges, and olives, save for the insistent dusky blue of the distant sky. (168K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)
	Trojan Nuclear Plant Cooling Tower, OR ~ 1992 The preceding photograph was made shortly after the Trojan plant was commissioned. This one was made shortly before it was decommissioned. The mood and colors stand in contrast, as well. The tower's aircraft warning lights bathe the tower and plume in a brilliant hellish red and orange glow that stands out against dusky blue-purple clouds. Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area) (184K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 7.5" wide by 10" high (image area)
	Power Lines Sunset, L.A. ~ 1972 (IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.) Smoggy sunsets can make for lovely light. The last rays of the setting sun tint the sky and the landscape a panoply of lovely warm hues ranging from deep purple-magentas in the shadows through reds and oranges, shading into a delicate lavender sky. (94 K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)
	Lake District at Night, Oakland CA ~ 1994 (IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) Nighttime over Oakland, a cityscape portrayed in the darkest greens and browns and most brilliant cyans, oranges, and reds. A lone plane streaks the sky with a thin brushstroke of light. (193K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 19" high (image area)
	Chicago Skyline and Trains ~ 2000 (IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) This formal composition contrasts an almost ethereal dusky blue-white Chicago skyline against the earthly tans, slate blues, and blacks of the rail system. (274K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 14" wide by 19" high (image area)
	Chemical Plant at Night, Kalama WA ~1992 (IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) Sodium vapor lamps illuminate this distant chemical plant and give the sky a sulfurous yellow glow, accented by hot-red safety lights atop the plant's structures. (172K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)
	Interstate Bridges on Columbia River, OR ~ 1990 (IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) Forest greens and deep cyan sky and water contrast with the soothing greens and tans of the Interstate Bridges that connect Oregon and Washington. (266K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 8.5" high (image area)
	Interstate Bridges, Portland OR ~ 1990 (IMPORTANT: ONLY TWO PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) The sea-green girderwork of the Interstate Bridges shines brightly in the deep blue summer sky of Portland. (221K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 6.5" high (image area)
	Infrared Telescope, Mauna Kea HI ~ 2000 Looking upward from the base of the infrared telescope on Mauna Kea, one sees the nearly fluorescent orange paintwork of the telescope's supports mirrored as yellows and browns in the observatory's dome. (201K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 19" high (image area)
	IRTF Dome, Mauna Kea HI ~ 2000 (IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) The dome of the InfraRed Telescope Facility is lined with foil to suppress radiation that would blind this heat-sensitive telescope. It catches the daylight in wonderfully textured shades of steel grays and blues and subtle delicate browns. (205K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 14.5" wide by 19" high (image area)
	Marconi Transmitter, Cape Cod ~ 2004 (IMPORTANT: ONLY THREE PRINTS LEFT. SEE NEW PRICES.) A remembrance of things past, in somber brick-reds, yellow and tans. This is all that remains of Marconi's great transmitter. Still there's a hint of life in the shadows. (300K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 15" high (image area)
	Moon and Fireworks, Vancouver EXPO -- 1986 This strikingly surreal and colorful image looks like a computer-generated composite, but it's entirely real. Hot pink fireworks fill half the dark green-black sky with incredibly delicate tracery. A full moon hangs in the sky over the geodesic roof of the entrance to the 1986 World's Fair. (289K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 13" high (image area)
	"FUN", Great America Park, Santa Clara CA -- 1978 (IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.) Bright reds, magentas, yellows and blues make up this strong image of a neon sign at the amusement park. The intense shadows and strong lighting make it appear three-dimensional, while the overall texture of the film grain lends a pointillistic quality. (100K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 19" wide by 12.5" high (image area)

	Rusted Grate and Refraction, Ann Arbor -- 1972 This is an image of a three or four inch section of expanded metal screen. The blue and white squiggles come from light shining through windows glazed with rippled privacy glass. Primary colors are blue and pumpkin yellow, with some deep purple. (192K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 18.5" wide by 15" high (image area)
	Solar One, Barstow CA -- 1982 (IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.) This is a formal composition of a very surreal scene I chanced upon in the Mojave desert. When the boiler isn't operating, the computer-controlled mirrors of the Solar One power station redirect all their beams into two spots in the air on either side of the boiler tower, to avoid an accidental melt-down. Pale blue sky, and sandy tans dominate the color scheme. (141K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 15" wide by 19" high (image area)


	Transamerica Pyramid, S.F. -- 1976 (IMPORTANT: LAST PRINT LEFT! SEE NEW PRICES.) This nighttime photograph of the Transamerica building seems to have true vanishing point perspective. The coloration in this print is both more subtle and more variegated than the monitor can convey. There are myriad delicate nuances of cyans, yellows, salmons and pinks playing over the different facets of the grey concrete facing and in the windows. (163K JPEG) Dye transfer print: 18.5" wide by 15" high (image area)
THE FOLLOWING ARE SOLD OUT AS DYE TRANSFER PRINTS!	Inquire as to availability as Ultrachrome digital prints (see individual print descriptions) Weismann Art Museum, St. Paul MN ~ 1999 The Cubist-inspired facets of the Weismann Museum break up reflections of the sunset-lit clouds and sky into dappled panels of pale blues, dusky purples, burnt oranges and near-blacks. (381K JPEG) Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints
	Walk/Don't Walk, Pasadena CA ~ 1972 This long exposure caught both the green and red illuminated tubes of a crossing sign, creating a visual illusion the eye could never see. Where the tubes overlapped in the exposure, green light combined with red to create various shades of oranges and yellows in a fascinating pattern of stripes and swirls around the bends of the tubes. (262K JPEG) Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints
	Brass Horn, Pasadena CA ~ 1972 Light flows like molten metal across this corroded musical instrument, illuminating it in radiant yellows, oranges, coppers, golds, and siennas. (258K JPEG) Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints
	Corrugated Galvanized Steel, Julian CA ~ 1990 Corrosion creates an intricate pattern of colors and textures on the blue crystalline zinc coating on the steel. Streaks of vermillion and orange mix with intricate textures in the same hues. Warm tones and cold tones are mirrored in a counterpoint composition. (291K JPEG) Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints
	Bank of America HQ, S.F. ~ 1978 A view straight up the side of the Bank of America headquarters at night becomes an abstract composition in poster-paint colors of jade green, ruddy orange, yellow, and deep saturated blue. (111K JPEG) Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints
	Ft. Peck Dam Spillway, MT ~ 1980 After dusk the dam's spillway catches the twilight sky, picking up tones of purples, pinks, and blues in a marbled pattern. (229K JPEG) Inquire regarding Ultrachrome digital prints