About the Photographer

I wanted to be a successful photographer…

My brain was well-suited to become something like a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. But I wanted to be a photographer. I took 4 years of art at Cupertino High School from the award-winning Francis Coleman. I loved George Craven’s photography class at De Anza Community College. After Intermediate Photo at San Jose State, I got a BA in photography and marketing from Long Beach State. Thank you Robert Routh and Dr. William Wittich.

I went on to take a Photoshop class in 1993 from a lousy teacher, then another PS class from Ted Orland, a very good teacher. Ted was buddies with Ansel Adams.

While still a teenager living at home in the 1970s, I began making abstracts of Christmas lights seen through a glass shampoo bottle. I also made 1 minute exposures of my brothers under a street light at night. I was hooked.

My Journey

I’ve been either part-time or full-time pro since 1979. I’ve done over 330 weddings, and 3 dozen print catalogs full of product photography. I was on the Burning Man Photo Documentation team for 4 years. I’ve worked in 28 different photo labs for 9 different photo lab companies. I’ve won a number of awards. I’ve taught photography at 7 different schools. I was president of the 140-member Nevada County Camera Club. I’ve also been a county fair photo judge.

And so here I am. My passion has always been to make images. I needed more passion for marketing my photography, but that was lacking. After going down my long and winding road, at least I have some pretty pictures to share with you.

Technical Note:

I’m proud that virtually every image on this website was created in-camera. Most have minor Photoshop clean-up, but no significant changes to the original image. The exception are the leaf scan images - for those, there was no camera involved. I placed the leaves on a scanner, then played around in Photoshop to my heart’s delight. There are no AI images on this site.

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