Straight answers about buying and hanging photographic prints, and notes from the mountains and storms behind the pictures.
Materials, editions, quality, and where to buy.
A ChromaLuxe metal print lasts longer, needs no glass and is fine in a bathroom. A Hahnemühle paper print costs a tenth as much and you frame it your way. How to pick.
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A limited edition is capped, numbered and comes with a certificate. An open edition is printed when you order it. What that means for price, value and which one to buy.
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Seven questions to ask any seller about paper, ink, permanence, resolution, editions, signatures and shipping, and what a good answer sounds like.
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What a gallery gives you, what it costs, and when buying straight from the photographer makes more sense, from a photographer who has shown in galleries and sells direct.
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My prints cost $300, $600 or $3,000. What sets those prices, what is included, and how to compare them with prints from other photographers.
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A ChromaLuxe metal print is rated at 65 years on display before noticeable fading. What that number means, what shortens it, and what my guarantee covers.
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Sizing, hanging, and which images suit which rooms.
Aim for art about two-thirds the width of the furniture, hung 8 to 10 inches above it. Worked examples for common sofa and bed widths, using real print sizes.
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Which landscape prints suit a living room, bedroom, office, entry, hallway or bathroom, and the practical limits (light, humidity, viewing distance) that matter more than style.
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My paper prints arrive signed and matted in standard 16 × 20 or 18 × 24 inch mats. How to choose a frame and glass for them, and what to ask a framer.
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Where the photographs come from.
What high altitude does to camera gear, why I still carry a heavy DSLR to nearly 7,000 meters, and why most of the photographs I brought back are not summit views.
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A supercell is a thunderstorm with a rotating updraft. How to pick out the updraft, wall cloud, anvil and rain shafts in photographs from Oklahoma and the Great Plains.
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The dunes of Sossusvlei are best in the first and last hour of light, when one side glows and the other is in shadow. How the place works, with my photographs from it.
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Waterfalls, black sand, glacier ice, the highlands and the northern lights. The places behind my 33 Iceland photographs, and what each one is like to photograph.
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In Chinese landscape painting, shan shui, people are tiny marks inside huge mountains and water. How that tradition shapes where I put a person in a photograph.
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