I have housed and cased the Angel plate which is now in my online store. All of the portraits in the current Reflecting mana exhibit are available through my dealer gallery.

My portraiture work now has a helpful addition – a sturdy headstand for the long exposures. I did have a replica headstand (the top shown here) but it was without the base and relied on a chair I had to fitted it to. This stand, which is from the early part of the 20th century, allows me to take standing portraits. It was traded for a daguerreotype of mine with a photo dealer out the back of a Tampa airport shuttle after this years daguerreian society meeting.

My first national exhibit has opened at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery and on on till February 12th 2012. I have added the ten portraits in the exhibit to the Daguerreotypes section of this website.

I have made a few of attempts at this scene but a couple of recent conversations with other contemporary daguerreotypists and with a improvement I made to my polishing technique, my proficiency with the process has reached a new level.

Since I lived in NYC and left in 2002, I have been back 5 times adhering to the same travel formula at this time of the year. Its become something of a ritual, traveling to NYC and staying with my friend Harvey Zucker in Soho. I visit old friends and colleagues – this year it was Jerry Spagnoli (pictured with a recent whole plate of his) and the Photo people at the Metropolitan museum of art where I used to work (pictured holding a case I made for the collection there) .
After New York I head off to the annual Daguerreian Society meeting which is in a different US city each year but follows the same formula. This year was different though, my table at the trade fair was full with my Daguerreotypes in my cases, not just the cases for sale. I sold 6 of mine and sales of contemporary daguerreotypes were well up this year signaling what I think will be a good year ahead for the genre

Sunday in some formal gardens yielded this 1/3 plate. The 52 second exposure calmed the motion of the water and left passersby unseen.

This recent portrait is for an exhibit I’m having at the NZ Portrait Gallery from Nov14th till Feb 10th.