I am very much enjoying my experimentation with inexpensive, innovative, and long forgotten optical art lenses and techniques. Every photograph is an adventure, and one that takes me way back, at the dawn of photography. No electronics, no auto focus, no image stabilizers, no computer.

It’s just like it was 150 years ago, me and a lens I have to focus an adjust with every shot. I can’t rely on the camera for anything but light now, and so am forced to learn more every day about light and glass and how they work together.

For me, the new lenses open up whole new range of photographic options. In my writing and my photography, I look to capture feelings as well as clear digital images – I want to do both. Yesterday, I wanted to capture the feeling of walking in the woods with Maria and a dog.

I didn’t want it to be a literal image, I hoped to capture the experience, like walking in a beautiful and dark tunnel. Maria was walking ahead of me with Fate and I like this image, it captured the magic of the woods we love so much.