Mark considers himself a printmaker first, and a photographer second. He uses the camera to explore. It gives him a reason to go to special places, and a way to be immersed.

These days all his prints are digital. Archival pigment prints has become the commonly used description. They are of course inkjet prints, but the distinction archival pigment is an important one since most inkjet printers use dyes, not pigments. Dyes fade rapidly.

While he often works the files heavily to get the look he wants, he does not create or alter image content. The most extreme case is a panorama where he stitches a number of frames together to make a single large and seamless image, but the resulting print shows what was in front of the camera.