About Me

I picked up a camera more than fifty years ago while in college, but my interest in observing the world began long before that.

Growing up in Kansas, I spent many hours traveling with my family along state and U.S. highways, passing through small towns and stretches of open countryside on our way to visit my grandparents in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I also remember quail hunting with my father, where the search and the discovery were as much a part of the experience as the hunt itself. Looking back, I realize how much pleasure I found simply in observing my surroundings.

Photography gave me a way to capture what a lifetime of observing had taught me to notice.

Over the years, my camera has drawn me to wide-open landscapes, quiet country roads, small towns with weathered streets, and urban environments where the familiar and unexpected often exist side by side. I am attracted to places and details that might otherwise go unnoticed. A faded storefront, an empty street, an interesting arrangement of shapes, or the way light falls across an ordinary subject can be enough to capture my attention.

People sometimes ask what attracts me to a particular subject. My answer is simple: I know it when I see it.

Sometimes I recognize a composition immediately. Other times, something catches my eye, but I need to stop, study the scene, and explore its possibilities. I have returned to the same location many times, at different hours from sunrise to sunset, under cloudy skies and in bright sunlight. The subject may remain unchanged, but the light and atmosphere can transform the image.

For me, photography is as much about the experience of observing as it is about the finished image. There is pleasure in the search, in discovering something unexpected, and in recognizing the moment when the elements come together. Not every photograph needs to tell a story or carry a deeper meaning. Sometimes something simply catches my attention, and I want to make a photograph of it.

More than fifty years after picking up that first camera, the curiosity remains. The hunt, the discovery, and the occasional satisfaction of capturing what I saw continue to draw me back.