About the Photographer

I am passionate about photography; not just the finished photograph, but also the photographic process of visualizing and then creating the printed image from the millions of pixels, that when combined represent what I experienced when looking through the camera's lens. For me, the photographic process is not complete until I try to convey to the viewer my excitement, whether produced by the play of light and shadow, by bold colors, by subtle tonalities, by rich textures, or by the intensity or even the calmness of the overall image. My goal is for the viewer to be moved or intrigued by what they see, regardless of whether their reaction is the same as what motivated me to make the image.

While I use the most modern digital photographic equipment, my style and technique are traditional. In the digital "darkroom" it is not unusual to spend hours "processing" and printing an image that may have taken just 1/30th of a second to "capture." Although I take advantage of state-of-the-art equipment, digital manipulation is kept to a minimum.

Through photography, I try to communicate what motivates me to press the shutter release. The writer uses words; the musician uses musical notes; the painter uses brush strokes; the potter uses clay. Photography enables me to present the world around us in a way that stimulates more than the sense of sight, but hopefully, also evokes our emotion and imagination.

My greatest influences have been those with whom I have studied, including the well-known British landscape photographer Charlie Waite, widely published former National Geographic photographer Bruce Dale, digital expert Thom Hogan and fine art photographic artist and Photoshop master John Paul Caponigro.

My photographs can be seen at the Multiple Exposures Gallery, located at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, 703-683-2205, at my studio/gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, 301-365-5177, and at Studio 206 at VisArts, the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts in Rockville, Maryland (www.VisArtsCenter.org).