This work is an attempt to bring some small aspects of my love and admiration for the beautiful light and compositional quality present in the Old Master’s still life paintings and to blend this with the newest advancements that our Modern Master’s of technology have gifted us with for image capture, processing and reproduction. I call the process I use PhotoGraphica, to represent certain aspects
of Photography and of Computer Graphics which have been blended to create these fine art images. Rather than a traditional camera and lens to capture these images, I use a state-of-the-art scanner and found objects from my garden and from nature that I carefully compose and arrange on the flat glass surface of this piece of equipment. When this process, which can be quite extensive, results in an inner “ah-ha”, the next steps of image refinement and removal of pollen and organic debris are achieved through amazing developments in software. Final steps in color management are to take an image illuminated by the transmission of light waves on a computer screen and accurately replicate this with a printed output where color is achieved by an entirely different means; by placing microscopic droplets of ink on absorbent paper, canvas, or aluminum.
