Harold Jones's photography is difficult to categorize, and there are no generalizations that satisfactorily describe his varied body of work. His original training in painting and photography led to a practice that Jones referred to as "photodrawings" – gelatin silver prints worked with a variety of hand-colored surfaces. The resulting images are unique and cannot be duplicated. Jones' approach has varied within his unaltered prints as well. He has worked with both multiple andlong-duration exposures to capture motion. Jones's subjects are everyday objects arranged in compositions that require viewing and re-viewing. The photographer has described his delight in the process in which a person moves beyond a superficial reading of his work for closer inspection. His images reinforce the idea that a world continues beyond the picture plane; that one is seeing a fragment of a larger whole. Although he often photographs mundane objects, such as a water tower or laundryhanging, his unusual vantage points or unexpected cropping, produce a range of effects from humor to mystery.