Photographic prints are not the same thing as prints of paintings, or the prints of photographs that appear on calendars and such. Photographic prints are not run off in large numbers on a printing press, but at least in this case are painstakingly made one at a time by the photographer. The process used to make a silver print of a black and white negative differs from the process used to produce a color inkjet print from a digital file, but both processes must be under the total control of the artist from start to finish for optimum results. No other person, and certainly no machine, knows how the photographer wants the finished image to look. The photographer, and only the photographer, can make a finished print that is exactly as he wants it.
With a Stansbury photograph, every single step of production, from exposing in the camera to creating and mounting the finished print, is done in-house by the photographer. No printing presses have been harmed in producing these photographs.
About Color Photographs
The color photographs were made with a digital camera--5 megapixels from 2002-2003, 8 megapixels from 2004-2007, and 14.7 megapixels since March, 2008. The prints are made using the latest UltraChrome K3 inks from Epson on archival lustre paper at 1440 dots per inch. The prints are mounted on acid-free mount board and hand signed by the photographer. If displayed away from daily direct sunlight, under glass or plexiglass, they will last at least 50 years without measurable fading.