What is an Illumigraph?
An illumigraph is a light etching, an optical image produced without the aid of a camera’s lens. Beginning as a personal horticultural record of my own seasonal anticipations, my series of plants and fruits began to multiply as I found a need to record the transient magic in the gardens, woods and prairie surrounding my home. Each year I miss the critical moment of some species as I’m busy cultivating the next or composting the last, so the series slowly grows and as the seasons change so do my skills in recording. Visit my gallery and watch it grow.

It may be too late to be a child prodigy, but it’s never too late to become a late bloomer.