I've had some type of a camera in my hands since my Junior High days. Early on I was mesmerized by the magic of the camera to capture that which excited me. I've created many different types of images over 40+ years of photographing. I've been inside of jet engines, taken aerials out of a helicopter at 14,000 feet, photographed high school seniors, done weddings, photographed buildings and processed and printed all types of films. My real passion to create, however, is reserved for nature's landscapes, be they great and majestic or the fine detail of a rain forest floor. It is here that my gift for making images really shines!
The current state of photography is very exciting. I continue to be a film photographer during the creative process of image making. My current system of choice is an Arca Swiss 4 x 5 field view camera. I use various lenses to capture my vision on Fuji transparency film. All film is processed in a professional lab. To transform the analog image to digital I use a scanning process to capture all of the resolution and image information from my 4 x 5 transparency. I use Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom to bring the scanned image back to what I pre-visualized when I created it. The usual wet darkroom processes of dodging, burning, masking, contrast enhancement and color correction is now performed digitally.