As a fine art photographer, I work self assigned subjects. Environment Lost, and Abandoned Life are currently in work. Exhibits: My work is currently on exhibit at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Co, and is coming soon in the Environmental Conservation Photography International at the Burke Museum in Seattle. Most recently exhibited solo was a hanging entitled Spring, which focused on botanical macro images of those spring pleasures we often miss.

Although a generalist currently concentrating on stock and portrait photography, I have in other times created advertising, illustrated annual reports and business plans, and concentrated on fine art. My work has appeared in national and regional magazines, guide books, found use by city and state governments, and been shown in fine galleries. Publications include the State of Washington, the State of California, the City of Seattle, Portland Monthly Magazine, Suite 101, Wiley Publications (Fromers Travel Guides), Nor'Westing Magazine, Northwest Yachting Magazine, SEA Magazine, Alaska Magazine, Intergenerational Innovations, and other general editorial use.

I have been an author for many years, having published editorial and corporate content, salted by the occasional short story and memoir, and hopefully a book length memoir now seeking agency. Current projects include a unique, illustrated Northwest U.S. travel guide and a gluten free cookbook.

I have to admit that I simply enjoy the connection with places and people that photography provides. I recall a time when I asked a friend, now my wife, on a hike I have taken many times. Stopping where I had before, in deep shade facing a narrow sunlit mountain meadow filled with new spring-white Avalanche Lilies and Anemones, I asked her to sit with me and wait. “For what?” she asked. “God.”, was my answer. “Concentrate, and God will come.”

So we waited in silence, each for something unknown to the other, until a breath of air so slight it couldn’t penetrate our shade fell across the meadow, bending new grasses and bobbing young wildflowers on spindly stems. “What was that?”.

Truth is ... damned if I know! But it will happen. It will always happen. With patience, focus, and the desire to connect, wonderful events occur. That is what drives my photography. I want to communicate those moments, nature’s importance, your story, or the importance of your life.

I would love to photograph you.

Photography’s unique ability to create history from the present, and the need to simplify when capturing all, make it unique among arts. Photographers can communicate the past, the present, the why, and create memory all in a single image. As a survivor of traumatic brain injury, the ability to escape into these realms through concentration on imaging is often a savior from the present. I enjoy learning and communicating people’s lives as much as I do nature. The two are not so far apart.

I photograph to preserve, to heighten awareness, and to find and make peace. To communicate, tell a story, or your story. To create, to simplify, and to amplify. My motivation is to create an image that connects with the environment or person I photograph, and to produce new, imaginative, unique, and informative images.

The environmental images I capture find use in travel, editorial, nature, and lifestyle applications for the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, as well as California, and British Columbia. Botanical photography, seascapes, landscapes, farms and lifestyle are favorite subjects.

As a portrait photographer based in the Seattle and Tacoma area of Washington I am drawn to infant and child photography, and senior citizen portraits. Connecting to a senior through environmental portraiture is a fulfilling way to create and preserve, and to communicate the wonderful personality of life lived. In photographing children I enjoy beginning with an infant and following your baby’s first year, or spending the time to document family and relationships between siblings, or children and parents. In either case, while we may photograph with studio lighting or on location with available light, my goal is to be able to spend the time to create communicative images.

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