INFORMATION

I picked up a film camera when I was in my early teens and have put it down only once—five years ago when I replaced it with a digital camera.

Nature photography has been my passion since the beginning, but my portfolio has expanded over the years to include travel and blues music. As a travel journalist for a major metropolitan newspaper I’ve photographed on five continents, but I admit to a love affair with the American West and Southwest.

Having spent a fair amount of pleasant times under darkroom safelights, sniffing fixer, I nonetheless have become a digital darkroom junkie. I use Photoshop to turn many of my photos into more painterly images.

All images © Phil Marty