I have always been a photographer of some sort. My folks gave me a Brownie 8mm film movie camera when I was about 9 or 10. I made stop-action movies with my plastic army men and various toys. I began life loving photography! A major in collage was journalism, (for a while), thinking I'd be a photo-journalist. I had some stories with my photos published as I learned to produce prints in a darkroom. Great fun!

My path took a different turn after marriage and a couple of kids. By the early-1980s I discovered the fledgling telephone industry, selling business telephone systems.

The Internet caught my attention in the early '90s and I started a small Internet Service Provider, (ISP), company exclusively for businesses. While it was successful, it was really just babysitting boxes with fans in them. We sold the business in late 1999, and I became an independent Web Application Developer. Who knew a sales and marketing geek could also be a Web geek? I learned fast!

We built lots of very cool Websites but one, in particular, stands out. One day a fellow walks into my office and introduces me to some products from Germany and asks if could we build a website for him? So I did. Then, later, we became partners and after couple of years he retired and practically gave the business to me.

That's when I became a serious product photographer. The company was called . The products were thermoplastic hot water bottles. Great products and great experience. We started that business in the Fall of 1999 and we retired a few years ago. We had a nice long run!

After upgrading my camera gear, photography became another revenue source as I photographed products for other companies, as well as my own. So the sales and marketing, Web geek, is now a hot water bottle entrepreneur, and product photographer. After years into that, my daughter asked me to photograph her art. Oh, sure, piece of cake. Right... Again, I learned fast.

Not only has this been a vast growing experience, it has been a genuine labor of love as I meet new artists and enjoy a wide variety of artistic visions. My daughter moved to Snowflake awhile back, and we moved up from the Valley, (Mesa), in May of 2024. I left a number of great artists down there and look forward to getting to know more up here in the magnificent White Mountains.

This website is an effort to de-mystify print-making for artists. There is no rocket science here. Nothing discussed here requires difficult critical thinking, or, (choke...!) math. We will, instead, enhance the results of your artistic gifts with plain, simple, ways to produce beautiful prints.

The site consists of three principle sections:

The Why Make Prints section introduces our philosophy about making prints, and why they are important.

The Hidden Mysteries of Prints section lists the several issues unknown to most artists, which can be an impediment to effective and efficient print-making.

The How We Do It section gets into the nuts-and-bolts of our photographic techniques, software, and gear.

More than anything, we value and celebrate your artistic gifts and honor your willingness to display them through your efforts and perseverance. We consider it a distinct pleasure and privilege to support those efforts. Photography of fine art is a very specialized niche and we treat it with the respect it, and your art, deserves.

Note: Many thanks to the artists whose works we've been privilaged to photograph over the years, some of whose works are displayed on this site as thumbnails. These artists are: Celestial Williams, Jodee Huish, Ruth Farris, Casy Wakefield, Donna Morris, and Mary Kabanuk. Copyrights to these thumbnails belong to the respective artists.