Bryant Payden

This image is a scan from Ilford Delta 100 B&W film shot with a Canon EOS A2. The image was shot in 1999 of a dead tree overlooking Deception Pass from Whidbey Island Washington. For this week long photography trip I shot exclusively B&W and fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. This print has been my best selling print from this trip and has to date almost completely paid for the trip.

This image was shot in 2006 on Skyline Drive right at twilight. I shot this with a Canon EOS A2 on Fuji Velvia chrome. The sky was this exact shade of blue and purple and I choose the slide film to better record the latitude of the shadow detail and the vibrant colors. I scanned this image from the original slide.

This image is of the Pocahontas window given in 1887, in part, by Native American students from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, now Hampton University, who participated in the life of the parish of St. john's.

St. John's Church is the oldest English-speaking parish in America, founded in 1610. The church of St. John's is a 1728 worship building displaying beautiful colonial brickwork. There have been three parish sites before this current site dating to 1728.

This image was created using Photomatix Pro 3 from 5 exposures +/- 2 stops in 1 stop increments.

Below is a High Dynamic Range Image of the Mr and Mrs Alfred F Ritter Jr. Fountain at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. The fountain is part of the Sarah Lee Baker Perennial Garden. This image was recorded summer of 2008, the day was particularly hazy due to the wildfires in the Great Dismal Swamp that raged here this summer. This image was created using three exposures +/- 1 stop in Photomatix Pro 3.

The Norfolk Botanical Garden is an 155 acre botanical garden with arboreatum located in Norfolk, Va. It is open daily except major holidays; an admission fee is charged. The gardens date to the mid-1930s, when the city of Norfolk set aside 75 acres of high, wooded ground plus 75 acres of reservoir for a city garden. Below is an image of a flowering Dogwood tree I recorded in the spring of 2008. I was primarily shooting the azaleas and camellias in their spring explosion of colors, but couldn't pass up shooting these two blooms in B&W.