The images you see here are the result of an interest in panoramic photography that goes back 30 years. As a student in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota, one often began a project by going out to a hypothetical building site with a 35mm camera and taking a series of sequential snapshots. Then, back at the studio, with a little scotch tape and the exercise of an ability not exceeding that of laying dominos end to end, a panorama would emerge.

After two decades of dealing with real buildings on real sights, vacations to exotic places, scotch tape, exacto blades, band aids and some unsatisfactory experiments with stitching software, I began to look at the real thing. With the help of Minnesota photographer Chris Faust, I began to research real panoramic cameras.

In 1996 I took my first true panoramic photograph with a Hulcherama Panoramic Camera. This first effort was a bewildering 360° blur of trees and boulders near Devil's Den on The Gettysburg National Battlefield.......but it was the start. Since that time, with the all the sporadic intensity and angst of a true amateur, I have honed a tenuous professionalism with this subtle, high-strung camera which, when it is good, can be very, very good indeed.......

Initially, I was going to be the new interpreter of the American Civil War, a sort of historical messiah laying open heretofore unknown truths about truly historic landscapes where the fate of a divided union was played out......if play is the word. I took dozens of panoramas of Gettysburg, Antietam and many of the Virginia battlefields. The plan was to incorporate the panoramas into an interpretive matrix of military maps and text. In fact, my first published works manifesting just such a vision are three posters of Gettysburg and Antietam.

Unfortunately, all this manifesting did not lead to the immediate fame and wealth also integral to the original vision. Therefore I continue to evolve and revolve the oeuvre in the directions of the compass you see herein.....