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And, here are your thanks! Choose your gifts from the prints shown below. Clicking on any of the thumbnails will take you to a web page with larger images of these photographs.

The first print shown below, "Sealing Wax Palm," is a dye transfer print! If you wish you can choose this print in lieu of two digital prints. I have a limited number of these available, so it will be first come, first served. When they're all gone I'll pull the description and the image from the page. If you're reading this you can still get that print, but don't delay.

Tier 1 Contributors are entitled to choose any TWO digital prints or ONE dye transfer print. You can choose two different photographs or two prints of the same photograph, if that's your desire.

Tier 2 and 3 Contributors are entitled to FOUR digital prints. Or, you can choose two digital prints and the dye transfer print. Or, you can even choose to receive TWO of the dye transfer prints.

Email me the title(s) of your choices and I'll print the photographs and ship them off to you via Priority Mail. I will email you when the prints ship.

Thank you very much for the support you've given me over the past year. You have no idea how much I appreciate it.

If you have any questions, please email me.

	Dye Transfer Print		Comments
			This photograph was made as part of the establishing work for my Jewels of Kilauea photography project. Approximately 10" x 12" with an 8" x 10" image area. Like all my prints, it is signed & titled on the front lower margin in archival ink and signed and dated on the back in pencil.
	Sealing Wax Palm

Digital

Prints

Comments

		These are the latest editions to my "Christmas in California" project. They make a rather nice pair, I think. Coincidently, I made these photographs in direct succession. Sometimes life anticipates art. All the digital prints are 11 x 14's with 1"+ white borders.
Xmas Oranges	Blue Forest
		I photographed "Grasses" in 2008, but I couldn't get the 'sky' exactly the way I wanted until I was able to devote some serious printing time to the problem. (Thank you, Contributors!) "Weathered Sulfur Vent" is from Jewels of Kilauea. This is the first chance I've had to print it the way I want (it looked terrible as a chromogenic print).
Grasses in Liquid Sky	Weathered Sulfur Vent
		I love "Jazz Dinner" because it is so atypical of my work, with its muted tones and colors and shallow depth of field. That worked oh, so well for me this time. I photographed the moon bow juist about midnight, New Year's Eve; it was the second full moon of the month, hence the "blue moon" title. It's not B&W, just very low in saturation.
Jazz Dinner	Moon Bow & Blue Moon
		The photograph of the Montreal Center is entirely natural color. The building is paneled in colored sheets of glass that both transmit and reflect brilliant polychrome. It's fun making a completely realistic photograph it looks so unreal. Yup, Buena Vista Park is infrared. I love the way the patterns get mirrored in the sky and clouds and trees and lawn.
Montreal Center	Buena Vista Park Path
		These two photographs are from the very first space shuttle mission back in 1981. I had some requests from Contributors for these two, so here they are. Columbia, I'm afraid, is no more. It was the shuttle that burnt up on reentry.
Floodlit Columbia	Columbia at Dusk
		The Trojan nuclear plant photograph is one of my favorites, with its wonderful cumulus steam plume. Previously, I could only print it well as a dye transfer. Here is its debut, 30 years later, as an entirely successful digital print. "Apollo-Soyuz in Floods" is another Contributer request. I made this photo in 1975; it took me 3 years to figure out how to print it.
Trojan Cooling Tower	Apollo-Soyuz in Floods
		I photographed the Alcoa building in Pittsburgh in 1972. It made a gorgeous silver gelatin print. I was too new at printing to realize that was an entirely fortuitous combination of film and print paper tonal characteristics. I could never again make an acceptable-looking print... until this year, when I realized that digital printing would let me recreate the characteristic curve I needed. It took a third of a century, but once again it's lovely.
	Alcoa Building ~ 1972