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Mother Nature has many moods. In changes of season, the position of sun, the patterns are inexhaustible. Erskine Wood has sought to capture that instant when Nature is at her best. His work, a collection of traditional and original prints, has been exhibited world wide and received numerous international awards and honors including two Photographic Society of America's Gold Medals and six international "Best of Show" awards.

Erskine grew up in Portland, then moved to Eugene get his degree and license in architecture. After ten years Erskine Wood left his architectural practice to become a full time landscape photographer. His subjects are the colors, graphic patterns, and moods of nature found from the smallest detail to grand scenes.

Sandy brings to the photography the perfect finish through her choices of mat and frame colors for finished presentation. Together Erskine and Sandy continue to photograph full time, participate in over 12 major arts and crafts shows annually, and sell their images through their own gallery, and on the internet. All phases of work, from print processing to cutting and assembling mats and frames are produced by Sandy and Erskine.

Large and medium format view cameras are used. Erskine uses his twenty five year old Linhof Master Technica (4"x 5") camera with lenses ranging from 75mm(wide angle) to 500mm(telephoto). A medium format Fuji GX680 (6x8cm) covers the balance of work. The distinct advantage using each of these view cameras is the ability of the lens to swing, tilt, and shift to increase depth of field and control perspective. The larger format films increase sharpness.

A selection of light balancing filters including polarizer, warming filters, and graduated neutral density filters are used as needed to balance existing light conditions to a particular film's character. The exceptional color and brilliance of the photographs are accomplished at the time of exposure through the photographer's choice of optimum light, mood, and season for each image. Printing of each photograph is done by the photographer. The introduction of digital printing from high resolution film scans (also by the photographer) permits even greater control over the final print with: greater detail in highlights and shadows, removal of unnatural colorcasts, and exceptional sharpness.

Both negative and transparency fine-grain films are used. Fuji Velvia is often a favorite. Photographic prints are made with Fuji Crystal Archive paper, Fujichrome Type 35 paper, and Epson Archival Pigment Ink prints. These papers are selected for their reproduction accuracy and lightfast stability of displayed color prints. Epson prints are conditionally tested for up to 200 year permanence.

These photographs represent many miles of travel, many hours, even days, of waiting for the right moment. We hope you will share and enjoy these moments with us.

Erskine and Sandy

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On the Left is "Winston McDuff", born March 21, 2002. On the right is his big brother "Alistair Tumble Gordon", born April 16, 2000. Click here for more pictures of our furry friends.
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