“It is in the Seeing that I hear the Voice of God.”

Ten years ago, I made a fundamental decision to listen rather than to just do. Having left corporate America, I felt a deep calling to pursue photographic art. And it is in the listening of where to go and what to photograph, I experience the Presence of God.  All of my creative endeavors come through me, not from me. I did not learn photography to be a better artist, I create a vision of the art and then learn photographic techniques to capture that vision.

My work has evolved in the last fifteen years from traditional landscape, to landscape portfolios, and now to looking inside those landscapes to find magical Icelandic Abstract Art. My influences include a combination of classical, impressionist, abstract, and photographic art, paired with extensive travel in the United States and eleven foreign countries. The development of my artistic vision has been greatly enhanced by hiking, backpacking, trekking, and alpine climbing over 2,000 miles.

Each photograph I take has a story. I utilize professional Nikon photographic equipment, and in some cases external lighting, with minimal post-processing enhancements. My work is characterized more as photographic art rather than digital art. The goal is to represent, the best of my ability, what I actually saw through the lens. In that, lies the story of the place.

Planning, which includes photographic strategy, site selection and photographic-shooting-discipline, is the key to capturing that story. Ninety-five percent of what I do happens before I ever get on the plane. The other five percent is sensing the moment to push the shutter.

I would hope that my photographic art generates two reactions: wonder and a joyful response to natural beauty.  As we learn from T.S. Eliot, “And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”