Words about me

I've been immersed in photography since a very early age. As a child I mowed, painted and many other odd jobs to save enough money to get my first real camera. I love being a photographer. I learned the craft using film, a dark room, and a manual camera. Nothing can compare to standing in a dark room watching an image come to life in front of your eyes. Is it sharp? did I get the right moment? was my exposure correct? The anticipation of knowing whether or not you had all of the necessary elements for a great photograph was an exercise in delayed gratification and unfortunately often times, delayed dissapointment too. Even Polaroids weren't instant when you compared to digital photography.

It's not uncommon to find a camera in my hands or within my grasp. I have spent much of the last 35 years of my life creating images of people, places and things. Photography is both my passion and my means of making a living. And, while I do a whole lot more than take pictures, photography is my life's passion.

This website is a glmpse into some of the images that have meaning to me. You'll see a lot of travel photos and shots of people or things that just happend to have caught my eye. Not necessarily art, but photographs I enjoyed making, reliving and now sharing.

A partial list of mentors and people I admire: My wife, Lynn, my mother, Alice, Fred Joynes, my junior high band director (RIP) who demanded excellence, John Alhauser, retired IU Photojournalism Professor, who provided the occasional kick in the pants I needed to complete my degree, Alan Petersime, a photojournalist, who inspired me by the incredible work he created when there was not such thing as automatic settings and autofocus, Nick Vedros, a consummate commercial photographer and businessman, who encouraged me to pursue the career of my dreams, Dean Collins, a commercial photographer and educator (RIP), who taught photography like a physics class, Karl Harte, a retired cabinet maker, who taught me how to be precise within a 32nd of an inch, and many more to come as I continue traveling through my 47th year here on this planet.