About

About Me

I started in photography way back in the 6th grade! We did a science project using photo sensitive paper in a pinhole oatmeal camera. That image is long since gone but I can remember the shadow of the treeline I had it pointed at slowly develop on the orange paper. That led to building a “darkroom” in my parent’s closet, the darkest place in the house, with a single red lamp suspended overhead. I cut Kodak print paper into a square small enough to tape in the back of my parent’s long retired Brownie Hawkeye camera. After exposing and making a contact print, I had a real image! That summer, I saved enough money to buy a Pentax K1000 35mm camera from Service Merchandise. I learned to develop my negatives and enlarge prints from Mr. Knabel, one of the librarians at our middle school where we had a darkroom.

All that was a great lifelong hobby but I didn’t take it too seriously until a few years ago. I started doing some macro shots, then astrophotography. A few years later, we moved to a new house where there was an active eagle’s nest very close by and that started a serious pursuit of nature photography. I’ve since started using a kayak to get closer to my subjects and have branched into several other genres of photography, and have many more in line.

I hope you enjoy looking at my images as much as I enjoy making them. I suppose there is a dual purpose in all this: one to experience nature and try to capture some part of it in an artistic and creative way, and secondly, to present that work to others so they can interpret and enjoy it as well.

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