I am an award winning professional photographer and graphic designer with over forty years of experience. My work has been published and sold around the world and is currently represented by photo houses and galleries in New York, Spain, England and California.

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While shooting aircraft over the years, I came to the realization that shooting air to air and getting the right angle, background and detail consistently was expensive, time consuming and impossible. So calling on my skills as a designer, I created a photo illustration technique that allows me to design and create beautiful large format detailed aircraft images just the way I want.

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All the images are photographed by myself. I use no computer based programs that automatically create objects, clouds or backgrounds.

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The Concept...First I sketch out what I want the final image to look like and then create a shot list for the various parts of the image. Using this sketch guide I shoot the various parts of the image.

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The Creation... There are no short cuts in creating the final large format photo illustration. You start by editing the shots down to the ones that will be used in the final master image in the computer ( that is usually around 8 to 10). This is where my background as a designer/artist comes in. The final 2 GB master image can take forty hours or more of painstakingly detailed computer work to combine all the photos, re-illustrate parts of the scene, add reflections, take out landing gear, mask the plane and integrate the plane into the background seamlessly. The final stage is to color correct and balance the contrast in the final image.