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I have attempted to reenergize a traditional form of landscape photography, the superwide panorama. Panoramic photographs were first made with mechanically ingenious rotating cameras in the late 19th century. However, panoramas never were a strong genre in the history of art; technical problems held back the flowering of the genre. Today digital imaging has eliminated those problems and created opportunities for photographers to produce great panoramic landscapes. Unlike traditionalists, I create panoramas with the help of a computer. I use an ordinary digital camera to take a series of overlapping photographs, usually 4 to 7. After I transfer the images into a computer I join them and create the illusion of a single photograph. I don't use "panorama stitching" software because the quality I require can only be achieved by joining them together "by hand," a slower process. Then I alter the tones and colors with Photoshop software until I have a print that satisfies me. I print each image individually with specialty inkjet papers and archival inks to ensure that they are fade-resistant. I can make images up to 40 inches long in my studio; larger sizes are printed under my supervision by another photographer.