History is, by necessity, taught as a series of clear, defining events. Facts and circumstances are obscured by time, resulting in a vision generated and distorted by imagination. We can guess how events must have looked to those that were there, but somehow the details are never clear and the visions we conjure would never stand up to reality. Camp life, hurry-up-and-wait (muster) and combat are all parts of any war and thus are suitable subjects.

This series of PanScenics was shot at a civil war reenactment near Sante Fe, New Mexico (yes, there was C.W. action there in 1862). They are the first images in an ongoing project that I hope will put a new face on photography -- to demonstrate the passage of time.

I should explain. Picture what you are doing right now: You are on your computer looking at this Gallery of Photographs. From here you may walk down the stairs and into your kitchen to prepare dinner. Then the meal is served and you sit down to eat. Now, think of each of the physical transitions as the space between the photographs, and the photographs as the actual events. Where traditional photography freezes and frames moments in time (the moment the shutter clicks), my goal is to follow events and their segues, one after the other. When photographed with the PanScenic technique, one could see a visual narrative of the sequence, or the introduction of "time" into the photograph.