Copyright 1973, Ted Orland

Title: Ansel Adams Photographing in Yosemite Valley
Negative 1973, Printed 2009
Medium: Ink jet print
Size: 10.5 x 14", on 13"x17" Hahnemuehle Photo Bright White paper
Price: $220.

I’ve been a photographer for almost forty years now, and over the course of time my work has slowly evolved from silver-based to digitally-based technology.

From the mid-1960’s through 2001, my prints were all created in the darkroom in the form of B&W gelatin-silver prints. Many of those prints were then toned and handcolored using artists’ oil paints.

More recently I’ve scanned much of that earlier work into the computer in order to make inkjet prints of those B&W and handcolored pieces that translate well to the new medium. Even more recently I've begun working with color film and scanning the resulting negatives directly into the computer, or photographing with a digital camera and (as they say) crossing over entirely to The Dark Side.

The net result is that all of my work is now output on an (Epson) inkjet printer, using archival pigmented inks.