Welcome to my photo page -- highlighting a few of my best efforts. They include: digital images, scans from negatives, scans from slides and scans of one-of-a-kind photographic prints.

All images © Dexter Dogwood.

"Blue Heart" Glacier Bay, Alaska.

"Sunset's Veil" Glacier Bay, Alaska.

"Dawn Peeks" Buffalo Bill Reservoir, Wyoming.

(No, it's not misspelled)

"Big Sky over Long Shadows" Buffalo Bills Reservoir, Wyoming.

"Peace in the Garden of the Gods" Shawnee national Forest, Illinois.

"Path of the Sylph" Nicolet national Forest, Wisconsin.

"Lost Hoop"

"Horns of Age"

"Storm Trees" Nicolet national Forest, Wisconsin.

"Mountain and Gorge" Bighorn national Forest, Wyoming.

"Bridge and Falls" Temperance River, Minnesota.

"August Flowers" My grandmother's house near Phelps Wisconsin. Black-and-white print hand colored.

"Chinese Ceremonial Garb" Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Black-and-white print hand colored.

"Marooned" Lincoln Park, Chicago.

"Catching Light 1"

"Catching Light 2"

"Frog and Ribbon" Extreme close-up with homemade macro lens. If you recognize the object shown, then you are as old as I am. If not, I'll leave you to wonder.

"Between My Fingers" In-camera double exposure. The intentional in-camera double exposure is a rather difficult technique. It requires a good memory of each composition -- I used notes -- and very careful rewinding of the film in order to line up for the second set of exposures.

"Divided" In-camera double exposure.

When I was in school I had some very good teachers -- and of course some not so good teachers. One of the latter in grade school -- when I mentioned my interest in photography as an art form -- told me in no uncertain terms that photography is not art. Her reasons were: that anyone can take pictures with a camera -- where as painting or sculpting takes years of practice to become technically proficient, and that a negative can be printed many times -- thus producing endless identical copies. Though I dared not contradict her, I knew she was wrong. The art is in the eye of the artist -- and good photography requires technical proficiency as well. However, I am glad this episode occurred because it drove me to find ways of making each print unique and un-reproducible. The two examples that follow are from a set I made in high school. When my photography instructor -- one of the very good teachers -- saw them, he wasn't sure how I created them but he encouraged me to continue developing my technique. The hand colored prints above are also examples of one-of-a-kind prints. No digital manipulation here!

"Rock Smear 2" Darkroom technique print.

"Self-portrait" In-camera double exposure.

"Rock Smear 1" Darkroom technique print.