I have come across a new way of presenting some of my photos, especially the landscapes. I have a software program that I run some photos through and it strips the image down to its pure and original form and removes all of the softenings, colorations and changes that the camera makes to the photographs. It’s called detail extraction and it pulls up the original details at the very base of the photograph. These photos come close to art for me, they are not alternations in the photography, they are the purest form of the original photo, the original details. This is what the camera is seeing before it goes through the digital editing process, in camera and on the compute. I have been working on this for months, and am just figuring out, I think it is becoming a signature of mine, I want to work more with it.

I don’t know how many hundreds of hours I’ve spent doing this, but the response to it has been striking. I think I am bringing a kind of painting to the photograph, a different way of expressing an image. Tell me what you think.