About These Images
Most of these images were photographed in the Absaroka – Beartooth Mountains of Montana and Wyoming, the most massive expanse of high elevation terrain in the contiguous 48 states. The unique weather of that region often creates dramatic skies. During rare conditions of almost perfect atmospheric clarity, the incredible, undiffused light reveals amazingly brilliant and vivid color.
Ilfochrome prints, hand printed by the photographer from his original transparencies, are currently exhibited and sold at fifteen multimedia fine art galleries. Six of these are located in Montana and Wyoming. The photographer has been printing Ilfochrome (called Cibachrome 1963 - 1991) since 1978 and began to publicly exhibit his work in 1993.
Ilfochrome is considered by many authorities to represent the state of the art for fine art photographic applications. Its unique utilization of pure, highly stable azo-metallic dyes provides unsurpassed brilliant, saturated color and unequaled resistance to color change or fading. It also features sharpness, or resolution of fine detail, greater than that of any other photographic print medium.
Ilfochrome is also noted for its superior color separation and hue rendition. It is widely regarded to be notoriously difficult (by far the most difficult color print process to master), and material costs are several times greater than those of any other color medium. Therefore its use is generally limited to a sector of the fine art market. Ilfochrome's rich color, sharpness, and archival permanence makes it the first choice of galleries and museums.
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