About The Images

Most of the images were taken on various business trips or vacations. My wife and I love to travel, and love to take photographs on our trips, but I don't take the usual "travel pictures". My images, by and large, fall into a few categories. I love pictures in natural light, and virtually never use flash. I particularly love pictures of interiors by window light. I also take lots of pictures of what I call "artifacts" (hence the name of the site). These are objects that were not intended to be art, but turned out artistic or beautiful, either because of some beauty in their design, or just because of a juxtaposition with other objects, or even just how the light hits them. Many of my pictures fall into a category I call "Doors and Windows", which you'll see in my galleries. The earlier images were mostly taken with medium format cameras on Kodak T-Max film. A few were taken on 35mm film using Nikon F's or F2's. The newer ones were all digital, taken with a Nikon D200, and more recently, a D700.

About Me

My name is Jeff K. Kravitz.

I have been using cameras for something like 50 years, but became more serious about photography in the early 70's. I have been doing mostly black and white photography for about 20 years, and doing wet darkroom work for about the same time. I really loved the experience of watching a beautiful black and white print appear in the developing tray.

A few years ago I decided to switch to digital photography. I had been playing with digital a bit for a few years, but was very dissatisfied with the results. The reason for finally switching was the advent of ink jet printers that were capable of black and white printing that came close enough to a gelatin-silver print. I obtained a good printer, discovered that it produced prints that met my standards and thus, decided to close down my darkroom (with a tear in my eye). I now work fully digitally, and have produced enough good prints to be happy. I also find that the digital workflow (especially using Apple's Aperture) is much easier and more powerful than working in a wet darkroom (alas).