During your visit you will see our new studio and gallery featuring state-of-the-art equipment set in a home studio and gallery environment.

1-View works on display and in process, both in our gallery and creative studio:

- See our urrent exhibition of framed and matted prints
- See portfolios of matted prints
- See prints in progress
- See digital files in progress
- See original drawings and sketches
- See Alain’s books, posters, calendars, Music CDs, Video DVDs
- See and try out Alain’s Tutorial DVDs, including Alain’s
- See the Mastery Workshop on DVD trilogy – Composition, Printing and Marketing Mastery
- See Alain’s Master Files CDs
- See Alain’s collection of Fine Art Photographs from other Photographers

2-See the equipment Alain creates his work with, including:

Digital equipment:
- Imacon film scanner for originals up to 4 x 5"
- Epson flatbed scanner for artwork up to 8.5 x 11"
- Apple and Windows computers (Natalie and I currently use 5 computers running at the same time to do our work)
- A variety of monitors
- GretagMacbeth color management hardware and software
- Epson digital video projector for demonstrations and reviews

Printing equipment:
- Epson printers accommodating print sizes up to 64"
- Epson and ImagePrint inks
- Hahnemuhle, Ilford and other papers
- ImagePrint Raster Image Processing software for printing

Cameras:
- Canon digital SLR cameras and accompanying lenses
- Phase One Digital Backs mounted on Hasselblad cameras
- Linhof Master Teknica and Teknikardan 4x5 films cameras
- Fuji and Hasselblad medium format film cameras
- Gitzo tripods

Software:
- Adobe Creative Suite software with the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, Bridge & Lightroom
- Adobe InDesign for layout work such as creating posters, CD covers, show invitations and other illustrations
- A wide variety of raw converters including Capture One, Raw Developer, DxO Optics Pro.
- Adobe Acrobe Pro for the creation of PDF portfolios and presentations.  PDFs can be designed to showcase not only photographs but also music, video and more
- Many more software packages too numerous to list here

Print viewing equipment:
- Just Normlicht Color Master L 5000 K desktop Pprint viewing station
- Solux lighting
- Light Impressions and other archival mounting and presentation materials
- CD and DVD burners for archiving files

LowePro and Tamrac bags to carry photographic equipment into the field

Matting, mounting and finishing equipment:
- Eclipse Computerized mat cutter
- GTI Mercury laser matcutter able to laser cut mats 30”x40” and larger
- C&H Advantage Pro 60” table matcutter
- C&H Advantage Pro wall-mounted material cutter
- Coda 60” Dry mounting press
- A complete collection of mounting, matting, framing and print-curating hand tools and air-powered tools
- Kinetronics Antistatic air gun for dusting prints and frames
- Silent air compressor (makes no more noise than a refrigerator)

Studio Size:
We use over 2000 square feet of work space for gallery display and for creative, mounting and packing work
We also have a projection-teaching room where we can project photographs for review and teaching purposes.

These areas do not include our living areas, “under roof” areas (garage, patios, courtyards, backyard), or our Studio Garden.

Studio Garden :
Learn how we designed the botanical garden and discover the artistic process behind this unique garden.
Click on the logo below to see photographs taken in our home garden. You are welcome to photograph there as much as you like:

You can try it all:
During your one on one appointment you wi'll get to try it all.  We can show you how to use any or all of the above.  Just let us know what you want to learn and what your interests are and we will design a custom program to fit your needs and interests.

Also available:
Phone and fax
FedEx, UPS, USPS and other carriers drop off and pickup services
Wireless, High Speed cable internet
Silvio coffee maker and grinder, fine expresso coffees – yes, we drink espresso!
Great food - I would not have it any other way!