There are several types of images that will appear here. All were made on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State during the height of the controversy concerning logging practices that focused on or around the declining population of the Spotted Owl. Actually, the issues at stake were far larger, even though the potential extinction of a species is a serious thing. The larger issues concerned how humankind uses the planet's resources, and the consequences of our actions, whether made consciously or unconsciously.

The color images were made with pinhole cameras and a 6x9 graphic fitted with simple lenses, both single element positive and achromats. The black and white images were made with conventional cameras, both in the graphic with a standard lens and with a Leica. The intent was to produce a sort of a dialog between a sense of nature that would have been understood by our romantic era forebears as well as some fairly direct reportage (in the b/w).

Of course there is a certain amount of crossover between these elements, and admittedly, a bit of technical experimentation which included developing color transparency materials by inspection (without night vision equipment).

The images were shown at the gallery at Pacific Lutheran University in November, 1989.