A native Californian born in 1958, I have always mixed art, science, and the environment. I discovered photography on a sixth grade field trip to the Los Angeles Zoo where I unsuccessfully attempted to photograph every animal I saw. Early in my undergraduate studies, I learned the science of photography by working in the college physics lab. Copying slides, developing film, astrophotography, and infrared photography were a part of my varied early photographic experience – and love. Photography was a beautiful, precise, and accurate expression of the natural world.

Photography is the stuff of life. I want to feel it and be it.

Amuse, isolate, embrace, photograph and keep it for myself. Keep it to share with others.

The goal is not to see the photograph, but to grab the moment, then that that small piece of the experience and put it in a form that can be recalled, preserved and repeated.

Beauty, poetry, excitement, mystery, amazement lurk in our routine and everyday experiences. Overlooked moments brought forward with love and empathy.

The greatest complement: “ I would have looked right at the rock (stick, spot, person…) and I only saw a rock, but your photograph shows me just how unique, special or beautiful a rock can be.

Life is good and photography is fun. I am not afraid to take a bad photograph and I’m willing to try something new.

In 2009 my collection “Water - Power - Folly” exhibited at the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust and in June of 2008 was displayed at Fresno City Hall sponsored by the Fresno Arts Council.  August 2007 was my first individual exhibit “A Little Ranch in the Wilderness” at Fresno City Hall. Each exhibit has helped to facilitate several sales of my work.