“AS I SEE IT”
Welcome to my portfolio. I have been a photographer for more than 50 years. I believe that photography is an art form which allows one to produce versions of reality to match their own internal visualization of what that reality could or should be. The process differs from most visual arts in that it does not begin with a blank medium which is then shaped by the artist’s visualization into the final piece, but rather it begins with an actual physical image of a reality which can then be modified according to the photographer’s artistic viewpoint.
For most of my photographic life that creative process took place in the darkroom and was confined to black and white imagery. With the advent of and rapid improvements in digital photography, my process has now become totally computer-based and allows for modulation of color images as well.
I hope that you will enjoy viewing these images as much as I have enjoyed creating them.
Phil Bailin