I often joke that perhaps I was launched, not delivered, from my mother's womb. That I say, may explain how I escaped the gravity of Ohio's factory world and found my way West. 

      I was a subject of my father's countless family vacation snapshots and 8mm films...and also received many of his hand-me-down box cameras and Polaroids.  But I didn't share his passion for capturing moments that found their way into boxes and were forgotten.  Rarely did I want to be the photographer.  Then I found myself in Ansel Adams' country while stationed in California with the US Navy in the 1960's.  That is when the rockets of inspiration fired and I found my way into orbit.

     Following my discharge, I applied to the Maryland Institute of Art with hopes of studying photography.  Instead, I decided to work as a volunteer supporting community projects with a Dakotah Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. There, and later through a variety of other experiences, I learned to "see" through new eyes. I learned that every image I have captured,  whether mechanical or mental, has contributed to the evolving work I have become. the works I make..and the vision I feel, live and share.  

     I owe much to artists and photographers past and present, especially Eliot Porter, whose images - like the words of John Muir - spoke to me long before I understood their messages.

     I photograph in color and infrared (with conversions to black & white). Many of my recently published color landscapes trend away from realism and favor impressionism.  This allows me to create work with full acceptance of a long history of slight color blindness and the diagnosis of an eye disease that degrades vision. This also allows me to express what my mind's eye has probably always seen.  I was slow to realize that I am also acknowledging the influence of a friend of many years ago, artist Rod Goebel, one of the “Taos Six.”  His impressionist oil paintings continue to amaze me.  

      Although I gave slide show presentations to biology classes at my high school alma mater on the very first Earth Day, none of my images were shown publicly until 2011. Since that time they have been displayed in several galleries and numerous exhibitions in New Mexico and Arizona. I am fortunate and honored to have work in public and private collections.

             Thank you for exploring with me. I hope you enjoy your visit and stay a while.