Many photographs in the marketplace today will not stand the test of time. Color will fade, mattes will turn brown and the art will become valueless. If the permanence and value of your art is important to you please read on.

All original vintage photographs "OVP" are hand printed by Rodney, using the Fuji Type R process on their best professional paper available today; called Supergloss sometimes also referred to as Ultrachrome. The process and the paper cost more but it has excellent color that will NOT fade. Rodney also does all the work on our Fuji Pictro and Fuji Crystal Archive Photographs (FCA photographs have the same archival quality as OVP's.)

On site at The Lough Road studio we have a ColorGetter Eagle drum scanner. This scanner is considered high end - top of the line, designed for professionals (with a price tag to match.) Capable of scanning at resolutions of 8000 dpi in 16 bits per channel. For those in the know....it is a fantastic piece of equipment capable of scanning at the films grain structure. Imagine being able to control a single grain of film in a final print working to ensure that it is perfectly color balanced with the rest of the image.

Rodney creates all his own scans, there are no assistants involved in this process. He works on each image himself, working to perfect each individually. With his Masters Degree in Statistics and Mathematics, along with years of traditional darkroom experience he is uniquely qualified to utilize this new technology to create exquisite images....more true to life in many cases than traditional darkroom prints. "For years I have tried, in the darkroom, to acheive the perfect print. There are certain restrictions one faces, specifically associated with opposite colors, which limit ones abilities to acheive a flawless color print. This limitation is overcome within the 'new' darkroom. I for one am grateful to now be able to present a final print which accurately represents the beauty that was before me when the shutter was snapped."

All of Rodney's compositions are photographed on Professional Fuji Velvia film, using either his Toyo 4x5 AII, ArcaSwiss 4x5 f-line or ArcaSwiss 8x10 f-line field cameras. Why? Slide film is the sharpest (for enlargements) and the most color saturated (for quality). Fuji Velvia is arguably the best of the slide films currently available for outdoor landscape photography. Both the 4x5 and 8x10 transparency lends itself to extremely detailed final prints. All of this costs more and is more difficult to work with but the quality is well worth it. Each photograph is mounted and matted to museum standards, using acid free mount boards and buffered acid free museum grade rag mattes. All of these efforts are more costly and energy intense than those commonly found elsewhere.