Lewiston Hill Baby Onesie

Lewiston Hill road was built in 1917 when automobile traffic made steep old wagon roads obsolete. The new highway grade with a series of sharp curves allowed cars travel up to 30 miles per hour, which was a good speed for that time, up or down along a gradual ten mile, 2000 foot elevation change.

The road can still be used today by anyone not into much of a rush and wanting to see an engineering model of early highway construction.

That's Lewiston, Idaho and the Snake River in the background. Started in May of 1861 as a steamboat landing, Lewiston immediately became a primary commercial center for Idaho miners during their hectic gold rush to Pierce in the spring. Steamboats continued to dock at Lewiston until 1940, mainly after Columbia and Snake River channel improvements made navigation practical in 1914. Finally a series of locks and dams made Lewiston a seaport, and large scale river shipping resumed in 1975.

The Snake River is a major river of the greater...

Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...