Photography is my passion.  Like so many people, I started taking pictures with a Brownie Hawkeye when I was nine.  From there I moved up to a series of ever more complex single lens range finder cameras to my first SLR - an Exakta which gave me years of excellent service and great photographs.  At 13 I had my first darkroom in the basement and used a home made enlarger from plans I found in Popular Mechanics magazine (It was a wooden box with a light on top and an old Kodak bellows camera on the bottom.  I could move it up and down on a pipe.)

Today I shoot with a Canon 20D.  My working lens is a 28mm-70mm Canon F 1.28 EF L lens.  And now I spend as much time in front of my iMac sorting files in LightRoom and tweaking them in Photoshop CS3 as I used to spend in my darkroom.  Even though I believe that “less is more” as far as post editing is concerned, the “less” still becomes very subtle and demanding.

My camera goes with me everywhere.  Even during the years when I didn’t shoot a much as I do today, I was always framing imaginary photographs in my eyes.  My family has come to know the frustration of driving along with me, and having to stop every now and then when I am struck by a scene and feel compelled to stop and shoot it.

My work is available on these pages.  I have a growing portfolio on iStockphoto.com (click on the link on this page to see it) and prints are available either through iStockphoto or the fine art photography site Imagekind (you can also click on the adjacent link to see my work there).

All photography is local.  I live in the beautiful countryside of Central New York State, surrounded by rolling hills and working dairy farms.

Photographs are moments in time, captured in whatever media you are working in.  While they provide a seemingly long lasting image, that actual picture in real life was only available for seconds before the light changed, before the sun moved a small fraction of an inch towards the horizon or a gust of wind blew a puff of drifting snow, or a cloud changed shape and location in the sky, or a leaf fell from a tree.  You can spend a lifetime shooting a tree and never really capture it.