Looking Back at Italian Landscapes

Private Garden in Castiglion Fiorentino

Sycamore Tree

Edge of a Field in Tuscany

In 1990 I was working with a medium format camera and experimenting with pushing film and black and white printing protocols. I can see some similarities with recent landscape photographs taken in Louisiana even though they were taken with a digital camera and if the image is altered at all it is with digital filters. 

Since most of the photographs that I have taken recently are references for drawings or paintings, I have begun to look at the older photographs from Italy with a different purpose.  Some of these images could be beautiful as drawings.

I am still interested in a lot of the same things: the plants growing on the edge of fields, the structure of trees and discovering gardens in unlikely places.