His color images are precisely framed and exquisitely lit. His subject is both the natural and urban landscape, which serves as his vehicle to explore man's impact on the environment. In "What City Pattern (Revision 2)" he juxtaposes two bodies of work. Images of the California landscape, in which industrial sustainability projects are accompanied by man-made habitat areas, are seen in relation to images of abandoned modernist architecture. Slade's point of departure is a 1956 issue of Architectural Forum, whose focus was the patterns of cities twenty years in the future, 1976. Speculation about that near term future has, of course, receded into the past to leave a residue of what has and has not become reality in the present. Through photographic documentation Slade presents the impact urbanism, the economy, and eco-industrialization has had on the landscape (Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Miracle Mile).