My favorite artist is the painter, Edward Hopper. When asked by a journalist during an interview, "What do you paint?" Hopper replied, "I paint light." Just as in a Hopper painting, light is the most important element of a photograph. The word, "photograph", means writing, drawing, or painting with light. Light creates the emotional mood of a photograph. Light transforms and melds subject, color, shape and composition into a compelling photographic image. Light brings an image to life.

A photograph captures a fleeting moment in time. Among the visual arts, only photography can instantly capture that fleeting moment and the spontaneous feeling of that moment. I believe that to see an image to capture in a photograph is an unconscious process.  My most compelling photographs are those in which the image comes to me. Whenever I consciously and laboriously search for things to photograph, the result is static, dull and non-communicative.  The essence of my photography is to see the moment, to respond emotionally to what I see,  and then to use my eyes and my camera so that others can see and experience what I have seen and experienced.

My work was selected for exhibition in thirteen juried shows in various galleries in Michigan, including the Lawrence Street Gallery in Ferndale, where I  was awarded first place for color in 2008, and where I was awarded honorable mention in 2010; the Newaygo County Council for the Arts Statewide Photography Competition; the Ann Årbor Public Library;  the Kerrytown Concert Hall in Ann Arbor;  the Lansing Art Gallery, where I was the “Featured Artist of the Month, in May, 2008, and May, 2010; Margot’s Gallery and Frame in Oxford; and the Framers Edge Gallery in Okemos, where my work was featured in 2007. During April, 2009, my work was exhibited in a solo show in the North Foyer Gallery of the East Lansing Public Library. My work is also on display at the Ann Arbor Art Center, in Ann Arbor. In June, 2009, two of my photographs won honors in the Southwest Michigan Council of Camera Clubs. In July, 2010, two photographs were selected by the governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, to be displayed for one year in the Michigan Governor’s Residence.   I am a member artist of the Lawrence Street Gallery where I will be having a solo show in May, 2010.