My current work focuses on peeling back the layers of natural life: discovering and documenting biology of the natural world around me starting in many cases, with my own back yard.   The intention of these images was, however, not only to document, but to explore. By enlarging the subjects, the viewer (and I) gain access and greater appreciation of a formerly unknown realm.

Most of the work seen here was photographed with a low power microscope using a 35 mm adapter. The work was enlarged in a darkroom to 11 x 14, then scanned at high resolution on a flatbed scanner. Because all of the subjects seen here were dead, and insects rapidly decay after death, great care was taken to rebuild both color and detail using Adobe Photoshop. The end result was printed large-scale using an archival Roland inkjet printer.