I have always enjoyed taking pictures. For the past twenty-five years, my family and I have summered in Tupper Lake a small town in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. The immense beauty of this area, with its dense pine forests, peaceful lakes, and smooth, strong mountains, has transformed my family and I into photographers! With the photographs that you see here, I have tried to capture the true essence of the Adirondacks and portray a feeling of what it is like to canoe on a river at sunrise or to take a hike in the mid-afternoon around a pond. Not all the pictures, of course, are of the Adirondacks. What they have in common I hope, is the feeling that one can step into each to find meaning and identity. If you feel the deep a chill of the early morning frost at "Bloomingdale Bog", the summer rain of "Rt. 30 South" or the sting of a mosquito at "Sucker Brook", I've been successful.

All the images were scanned at 4000 ppi from Kodak and Fuji color negative and slide films. They were edited and printed at 720dpi using Epson archival inks on Epson archival papers. The camera bodies used are a Nikon N80 and a Pentax Super Programmable. The lenses are primes or zooms from Nikon, Pentax or Sigma. The scanner is a Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 with PolaColor. The PC is from Red Barn Computers and the printer is an Epson 1270. Adobe Photoshop, Panorama Factory and Corel Photo Paint were used in editing and color adjusting the scans. The system calibration is Color Vision.

Thank you,
Ray Cronk (Binghamton, NY)
Nov 09, 2003