management. Exposed by the LightJet 5000 laser output to Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper, these prints are far more accurate renditions of what Brian witnessed and recorded on film than any traditional optical enlargements.

Independent tests suggest that Fuji Crystal Archive prints in normal display conditions will last 90+ years before detectable fade occurs, when compared to a control print generated at the same time as the original but maintained in lightproof conditions. This means that the Fuji Crystal Archive print will last twenty times longer than any other print.

Giclee Photographic Prints
Giclee printing uses high quality inkjet printers to make reproductions on watercolor papers. The results combine the best of the photographic reproduction with a painterly look and feel on finely textured papers.

The Roland Hi-Fi Jet printer can create prints up to 50" square in both color and black and white, on a variety of watercolor papers. The Roland uses pigment based inks with an archival rating from Wilhelm Research of approximately 150 years, before any detectable fade occurs, when compared to a control print generated at the same time as the original but maintained under lightproof conditions. Presently, Brian is printing his work on the Somerset Velvet Enhanced watercolor paper which is a bright white paper offering a wide color gamut and good blacks.

Other Thoughts
We are in the process of making more images available, but the going is slow as Brian spends from four to eighteen hours per image to make all creative decisions during the high-resolution drum scanning and image management. From then on, every print, regardless of size and when the digital file is outputted, will exactly reproduce Brian's chosen artistic values.

Additionally, Brian has over 600,000 color transparencies on file, covering over 100 countries and thousands of subjects. Many collectors ask to review a specific country or subject file to select the image that they wish to have enlarged, to suit their visual aesthetics.

Where traditional prints lose color and contrast with enlargement, digital enlargements can feed the same numbers to the output lasers for 50-inch prints or 5-inch prints, thus, colors remain clean and saturated on large prints. Edges of subjects can hold full sharpness instead of becoming diffused as in optical enlarging, while film grain can be selectively defocused.