Hand colored photographs are created by applying color to a finished black and white photograph. There are numerous techniques and materials that can be used to achieve varying effects ranging from pencil, watercolor, oils, and even digital (although it is questionable whether these can be considered "hand colored"). Hand coloring photographs was a technique used long before color photography emerged, as a means to achieve color in a photograph; often portraits of people were colored. However, as color photography proliferated, hand coloring began to be used more as a creative effect.

All of my hand colorings are produced by hand printing a black and white negative on fiber based photographic paper. The prints are processed to archival standards. In some cases, the entire photograph is colored with oils, in others, only selective portions of the image are colored. Many of these are selenium toned in the processing phase which gives them a deep reddish brown hue.

The oil is applied to the surface of the dried print and blended so that it is undetectable. Once dry, it is permanently bound to the print. The oils are similar to artist oils except that they must be transparent in order for the image to show through. Like artist oils, they are durable and enduring. Each finished print is signed and numbered with archival ink, then mounted and matted using archival materials, so it will last for generations.