Artist's Bio: I started taking pictures and assembled my first darkroom at age 13. I am now mostly photographing individuals and models for fun, but it has been a long journey to get to this point.

My two main focuses these days are Fine Art and what I call Personal Art (i.e. currently being my Be Art project where I'm co-creating with my subject(s) and then turning our images into fine art prints). But first let me tell you about my journey. I told you about starting at 13, and even then I was drawn to photographing people. I played around with photography through college, taking pictures and spending countless hours in the darkroom. And up through college I had been self taught.

After college and as an Energy Engineer (doing mostly energy conservation and utility management) I had the time and money to start taking classes. During this period I started broadening and refined my skills. I also started working with models in the mid-80s, doing both fine art and fashion, and I started getting requests for photographing weddings and doing portraiture.

In 2000, I had the opportunity to "retire" from engineering and become the primary parent for my then 6 year old daughter. It was unbelievable spending so much quality time with my daughter. Additionally, between putting her on the bus in the morning and meeting her bus in the afternoon, I spent a lot of time with photography, ultimately building up a successful business. During this very active period as a professional photographer, I was learning, refining, expanding and specializing.

Then in 2004 both divorce and reality hit, and I returned to energy engineering. But I made sure that "reality" wasn't too normal in that I took a job as the Energy Engineer for the US Antarrctic(sic) Program, which took me to "The Ice" for 4 or 5 months a year (see my Antarrctica work in the "Be Art" section of my web site - and I apologize for the misspelling but I don't want any kids googling to the site), with the rest of my 1.5 year stint with the USArP working in the Denver, CO area where I also maintained a fully functional professional photography studio.

But reality, or the lack there of, in Antarrctica had to come to an end and now I am back in North Carolina and loving it. Again, I maintain a fully functional professional photography studio and invite you to contact me if you would like to discuss working together.

I photograph in both color and black & white with both professional digital and film cameras. I also manipulate images digitally. And because of today's technologies, I am able to show and sell both chemically processed prints (dark room printed and/or digital laser light printed on photographic paper) and digital inkjet or giclée prints.

And finally, below is a photo of my studio.

I did 12 shoots with one model and she recently e-mailed this from Chicago: "Everyone who has seen our work is very impressed and I have had more opportunities to use some of our photos than I ever would have thought (bios for work, stretching photos for my stretching workshops, etc, etc, etc)."

I support the Special Olympics and have recently donated photographs to them for use in their work and promotions. Here is a billboard that I supplied the photograph for.

I also encourage you to support the Special Olympics and/or your charity of choice.