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I was fortunate as a child to have grown up in a small Michigan town with forests, fields,

lakes and rivers only a short walk or drive away. Standish is located 2 miles from shores of

Lake Huron. My family also had a cabin in the remote western Upper Peninsula of

Michigan. A few weeks every summer and fall were spent at the cabin.

My love of landscape photography was borne from the time spent at the cabin. Having a

place to go where the nearest town was 6 miles away and the nearest neighbor three miles

away I had all the uninterrupted time in the world to explore the vast forests and rivers. I

was intrigued how nature assembled itself. The juxtaposition of the streams against the

trees and the rocks to the hills. It was all so beautiful.

The journey with photography began in 1974 when my father gave me his Argus C-4

rangefinder camera. In 1980, after a brief break, I returned to Western Michigan University

to finish my degree. I changed my major to Art with emphasis on Photography. In 1981 I

was accepted into the BFA program. I was lucky to study under Professor Emeritus John M.

Carney while at WMU. Jack was not only an outstanding teacher and mentor, but also a

good friend.

My work is an interplay of light, texture, detail and form. Primarily trained as a large format

black and white photographer my landscape photographs are in the tradition of Adams and

Weston. Although my passion is still working in black and white, with switch to digital

equipment, I now enjoy color work as well. My philosophy is that there must be a reason for

color to be in an image for color photographs to be successful. Much is my color work is a

blend of black & white and color in the single image.

Switching to all digital in 2004 created new opportunities to express my vision through the

photographic image. Although shooting exclusively digital today, my methods and style of

photographing are the same as when I used a 4x5 view camera. Still applying the same

principals and fundamentals to the digital image has made the transition a joyful experience.