My journey began at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, My parents moved to California while I was a young child and I have spent most of my life near the Pacific Coast of Southern California.   My interest in photography awakened over three decades ago to capture the youthful exploits of my son and daughter.

After forays into portraiture, wedding, model and sports photography, I found images of nature to be the most compelling.   My greatest reward is that I must be in nature to capture images of nature.

While primarily self taught, I have honed my skills with college classes, gained insight, technique and inspiration by studying the classic images, shared in the knowledge of other shooters, dissected images that did not work and learning from those that did.

Having spent nearly four decades feeding my left brain and family in private and public water system design,  I am now blessed to concentrate full time on my photography and art.

My images are fragments of time and captured moments when the beauty of light, shape, color and shadow caught my attention.  Some images express the profound beauty of nature and some the inspirations of humankind.  While others express various idiosyncrasies of life or just a detail that caught my attention.