I am fascinated by (1) the look of the Pacific Northwest and (2) the look of old-fashioned hand-colored black and white photography.

I combine them now in both traditional darkroom prints and in high-quality digital black and white prints, which I individually hand color with artist acrylic paints.

I grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Harvard University in 1975 with an AB in history of religion. I have worked as a newspaper writer for most of my career, most recently writing about art. In 2006 I received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship to study theater writing. My photography has been shown at the Karin Clarke Gallery and the Jacobs Gallery in Eugene, Oregon. I live on 18 acres of forested land outside the small Oregon town of Creswell with my wife, Lisa Strycker, and occasionally with my traveling son, the nature writer and photographer Noah Keefer Strycker.

To answer the inevitable question, I shoot with Pentax gear.