Frequently asked questions.

My standard shipping includes prints placed in protective sleeves and then carefully rolled into a mailing tube. They are protected inside, and can be shipped easily. If you prefer these prints be mailed flat when not framed, you can contact me to have me mount the print to foam core or styrene to keep it rigid during shipping. This will require additional handling time before shipping.

All of my prints are on Red River Paper’s products. These are consistently of excellent quality, and they give my prints the exact look I want you to see when you look up at your wall. My open edition prints include some of their premium luster photo papers that have excellent longevity along with beautiful colors, as well as some of their metallic photo paper. Their fine art cotton rag papers present us with depth to the image, rich colors, and deeper black shadows. Occasionally I offer certain prints on metallic papers. This works really well for specific types of photos. These cotton rag papers are of the highest quality, and they are considered archival quality papers. These specifically are acid free, lignin free, and OBA free. They are guaranteed to last 200 years when stored properly.

I am using Lucia Pro inks with 11 colors, along with a clear coat that minimizes bronzing. These are superior quality pigment based inks, and their colors are exceptional.

Not all of them, but the vast majority of them are. I love where I live, and there is so much beauty around here that I could spend two lifetimes capturing photos of it. Whenever I travel, I have my camera with me. It’s certainly possible you’ll see something from out of state up here every once in a while.

Well, maybe… If it was a limited edition print, and it sold out, I won’t be able to make and sell another print of that image. Otherwise, I change my prints up frequently, and I carefully choose new offerings. If you contact me, I very well might be able to make another print for you of a previous offering. I can’t guarantee it though.

I can, but I prefer to make these prints with a white border around them. If you contact me, I will work with you to make sure you’re satisfied with the print. I can print borderless up to 17” tall, and 25” long very easily.

Sometimes, yes. I really do want to make sure that as many people as possible have access to my photography in their homes or offices, or anywhere else they might display them. I keep in stock photo paper and fine art paper for 6-7 sizes all the way up to 17”x25”. Most anything in between a wallet size and my 17x25 is doable, but I can’t promise it will be. You’ll need to contact me directly to work out a print size. I can print panoramas that are longer than 25”, but 17” wide is as wide as my printer will go. I need additional time to prepare those for my printer, but I’m happy to make them. I do offer panoramas from time to time. They’re some of my favorite types of photos to take. Since I really do like to be in complete control of my printing process and final product, I’m not currently offering to send my images out to print services for larger prints outside my printer’s capabilities.

Most likely, yes. I keep a pretty good stock of premium papers around for my prints. I print on Red River Paper almost exclusively. I find that their attention to detail, their colors, and their depth are exceptional. I am most comfortable offering my customers prints on paper from Red River because I know that the quality is consistently excellent. If there is a specific look you’re going for, let me know. I think Red River probably offers something to suit you.

Archival is a term that refers to the materials that a photo print is made with. If a print is archival, it also lets you know that it’s intentionally made to last longer than a standard photo print when stored properly.

My limited edition prints are ALL archival and museum grade photos. This means that the paper I use is a premium fine art paper that is acid free and lignin free. The ones I use are made of 100% cotton rag. Most importantly, I am also using 12 colors of pigment inks.

Pigment inks are far superior to the dye based inks found in the most common types of printers. These prints are capable of lasting 200 years if stored properly. In the most common real-world storage/display scenarios, archival prints will last 100 years. That means that one of my archival photo prints will last you a few generations of passing down your fine art!

Other than the materials used to make the print (archival v.s. non-archival), where you store it and how you store it is the next biggest factor.

If you frame your beautiful landscape print and hang it in the kitchen where it is actually getting direct sunlight for 7 hours a day, and it’s also subjected to humidity and particles/smoke in the air from cooking, that could negatively affect your print. This is why all of my prints are printed with archival inks, and they all have a coating on the print that optimizes the color and protects it from these elements.

Giclée is actually a word coined by a print photographer in France in the 1990’s. It is a French word meaning “to spray”, referring to the way that ink jet printers spray droplets onto photo paper.

Giclée can mean a few different things to a few different people, but generally a giclée photo print is a fine art photo printed with only pigment based inks on archival paper.

I’ve already got a limited edition section of prints, why do I need a special edition section too?

My special edition prints don’t fit the description of any of my other categories of prints. They are not always printed on archival papers because some of them look amazing on metallic paper or on baryta fiber. They aren’t necessarily open edition prints either because I do limit the number of prints in each edition.

I also take special requests/comission orders for prints, and those will be sold as special edition prints.