Part of the enjoyment is being able to successfully capture and portray beauty that comes so natural to the eye, but can be difficult to reproduce in a photographic image. Stephen's photographic skills were grounded with black and white film, performing negative and enlargement processing in his own laboratory setup over 35 years ago. He made the switch to a digital method with a renewed zest for the field back in 2006 based on Canon equipment, as he noted the technology started to eclipse that of film.