Looking back, I’d say a couple of things influenced my original interest in photography. In 1960, when I was 15-years old, our mother took my sister and me on a road trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco. I took a photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, using a Kodak box camera. After the photo was processed, it received a lot of family praise. At that young age, there was nothing like praise to stimulate an interest. Then, around 1967, I saw Michelangelo Antonioni’s feature film Blow Up. That movie was the first time I sensed both the magic and the limitations of photography. The film still holds my attention and I watch the DVD from time to time.

I bought my first single lens reflex camera, a Honeywell Pentax, in 1967. A few years later, I switch over to Nikon cameras and I’ve remained on that platform. From 1967 to around 1983, I shot a lot. Mostly what might be described as street photography. During those years, I also travelled a lot, in the United States, Western Europe and Africa. Many of my most popular images are from those travels.

After 1983, I continued to shoot, but not as much. That changed when digital cameras became useful and affordable, around 2001. I was already shooting a lot, again, when photography became my primary source of income, in 2005. Before that, I worked in corporate communications for an insurance company, was a community college psychology instructor for 20 year, worked as a research analyst for a couple of years and ended my “working for others” days with 10 years as an information systems project manager.

Currently, I work in both the commercial and fine art photography worlds. Nearly all of my commercial assignments are for cultural organizations, a partial client list includes: the Seattle Art Museum, the Henry, the Frye, the Northwest African American Museum, the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Wing Luke Museum, ArtsFund, the Seattle Public Library and Friends of Waterfront Seattle. In my fine art practice, I’ve exhibited in group and solo shows, in galleries, museums, hotels, coffee shops and art fairs in Seattle, San Diego, New York City, Tallahassee and Spain.

My personal work now includes performance, portraiture, travel, the natural world and street photography.