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The first of Eric's new cameras, purchased in 2013, began to be used in 2014 when he moved to Sacramento, California, except for a 2013 trip to California to visit family. With his greatly improved image quality came more expeditions around California, Nevada, and Utah; he also returned to Baltimore, Maryland and the East Coast. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the years passed, Eric visited more states and ...
Talk about family trips giving photo opportunities in Seattle and Hawaii in 2016, plus Austin and San Antonio areas in Texas after family members relocated there in 2017.  - Include photos -

 

 

In 2018, Eric's camera quality improved even more after purchasing his first full-frame sensor camera.

 

 

 

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Eric started shooting with his first macro lens in 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2019, Eric began using a DJI Mavic Mini as a flying camera to take aerial photographs.
 

 

 

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In 2023 Eric upgraded to the new DJI Mini 3 Pro for high-quality aerial photographs.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From 2015 to the present year (2024), Eric has taken a nearly annual photo trip to Nevada, a dreamland for ghost towns and historic mine sites. He plans to continue traveling the western states for as long as he can, as there are more than a lifetime's worth of places to photograph.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In school, Eric didn't have a specific class about the history of photography or photographic artists. Researching taught Eric, often years after photographing a site, that famous photographers shot some of the same ghost towns and locations. These photographers include Carleton Watkins, Timothy O'Sullivan, William Henry Jackson, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol, Paul Strand, Andreas Feininger, Todd Webb and more as he continues to learn.
 

 

 

 

Beginning with his Portland darkroom days, Eric was also interested in photographing historic buildings, signs, and sites from living towns and cities (which are also being constantly vandalized and disappearing).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Completely Vandalized and Permanently Damaged, as Good as Gone

 

An unknown number of buildings and structures no longer exist since Eric photographed them because he only knows when he returns if something is gone or if he learns from an internet source that something is no longer in existence or ruined.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything but the Windmill is Gone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baltimore Demolished 

 

 

The Auditorium Remains but the Lotus Card Room and Cafe in the 1906 Hotel Albion Building was Demolished in 2018

 

 

Eric has traveled to places he finds exciting and awe-inspiring, taking him through more beautiful scenery than he has time to photograph during thoroughly planned trips. Each travel day is filled from the morning into the night with sites to explore and photos to take, fueled primarily by rockabilly, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and other genres of music from the 1950s and 1960s or bands carrying on these musical styles through the decades to the present day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portland, 1957-58 Morrison Bridge - Royal Hotel

 

 

 

 

 

Fresno - Neon Auto Supply
 

 

Nelson - Metropolitan 1953-1957 American Cars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2023, Eric moved to Arizona ...

 

On Christmas Day of 2023, Eric was looking into Holga film cameras (since he had one in 2004 when at Pacific Northwest College of Art). This led him to discover how to take in-camera multiple exposures with the Canon camera he has had since 2018. Although his camera can take more than two photos in a multiple exposure, Eric prefers taking only double exposure photos. There is a challenge in composing two photos at the same time. Whatever the second photograph's subject matter is has to be close enough in location to the first photo's subject because the camera can't be turned off between shots. Composing an interesting image may require multiple tries and playing around with scale. This may require walking back and forth between the two subjects to repeatedly take double exposure photos, hopefully getting an interesting final shot where the two photographs are combined as a single image.  Eric's first double exposures were in a darkroom photography class at PNCA in 2004 when his teacher suggested he layer two of his negatives so that they would print as a single photograph, which is less difficult than shooting two photos in a row to create one work of art. Creating a visually interesting and creative photo is always Eric's goal. With multiple exposure photography, Eric tries to take historic subjects that are hard to compose in a visually appealing way and to make them into an exciting image instead of something boring or commonly shot.

 

 

 

 

 

In the summer of 2024, Eric ended up finding some different Holga lenses for his Canon cameras, which he has started to use in an artistic attempt to give a soft and dreamy feel to some of his photos, while keeping the high image quality that the Canon camera body provides. The Holga lens photographs
 can look more reminiscent of a Kodachrome or vintage film photo. In the future, Eric intends to use these lenses when photographing historic signs or subjects that may have been recently restored and which possibly look too new and freshly painted to him, although that is how old signs would have looked in the eras when they were created.

 

 

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Wyatt (Josie) and Virgil Earp Sequence