The Hibiscus Mornings
White-necked Jacobin · Mindo, Ecuador · 2025
42 plates · current
A field journal · Plate i
The white-necked Hummingbird.
For seven mornings I sat beside the same hibiscus bush in Mindo, Ecuador, and waited. On the eighth, she returned — wings at eighty beats a second, throat catching the cloud-light — and let me make her portrait.
FIG. 01
She watches the camera back. Move the cursor — she follows. Click anywhere — she flies there.
Plate ii · Catalogue raisonné
Six series, made slowly.
Each series is the patient outcome of a single field season — usually three or four months in one place, one creature, one weather. No drone footage, no composites, no AI. Light, lens, and a long quiet wait.
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Snow Moths
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19 plates
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36 plates
Owl, in the Birch
Boreal owl · Yukon · 2022
22 plates
First Light, Atlantic
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Plate iii · Anatomy of one frame
Eight mornings, one frame.
The frame on the cover took eight mornings. She came every day around 06:42, fed for seventy seconds at the same flower, and left. On the eighth morning the cloud broke for forty seconds and the throat lit like a small chromatic mirror. The shutter found her there.
- Camera
- Sony α1, IBIS active
- Lens
- FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS
- Shutter
- 1/8000 s, electronic
- Aperture
- f/4.5
- ISO
- 4000
- Drive
- 30 fps, silent
- Hide
- Lekkerwater canvas
- Wait
- Eight mornings, four hours each
Plate iv · The print room
Honest prints, made in the room.
Every print is pulled by hand on a Canon Pro-1100 onto Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta — a cotton paper with a faint baryta sheen. Numbered, signed, dated in soft pencil. Editions stay small.
The Atelier
11 × 14 in · edition of 50
$140matted, signed
- — Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 gsm
- — Hand-numbered in pencil
- — Acid-free mat, 4-ply
The Studio
Most ordered16 × 20 in · edition of 25
$320matted, signed, foam-mounted
- — Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 gsm
- — Acid-free mat, 8-ply museum board
- — Archive certificate, signed
- — Crated shipping, two weeks
The Wall
24 × 30 in · edition of 10
$680oak frame, museum glass
- — Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315 gsm
- — Hand-finished white oak frame
- — Tru Vue Museum anti-reflective glass
- — White-glove delivery, eastern US
Plate v · Commissioned work
If you have a creature in mind.
I take three commissions a year. Each is a single subject in a single place, photographed across one full season, and delivered as a hand-bound book of forty plates plus a museum-grade exhibition print.
- 01 Field Season Three months on location, one creature, weekly contact sheets emailed home. from $24,000
- 02 A Year of Light Four field trips across one calendar year — your subject in every season. from $58,000
- 03 The Permanent Record Two-year project, hand-bound book, museum exhibition, archival print set of twelve. from $140,000
Plate vi · Correspondence
Write to the atelier.
She is leaving the frame. If you would like a print, a commission, or to ask which morning she will be back tomorrow — write. Replies usually arrive within a week, often slower. Field season is field season.