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Artist Profile |
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Style
I am not a technocrat. My approach to photography is very right-brained, more artist than technical. The emotional component of my images is very important to me. I often describe my work as being intuitive. Many of the images I produce are symbolic, an outward expression of my intrinsic, fundamental being. Many people say to me, "You have a good eye." I prefer to think that my eye is the pathway to my soul. My insight, my awareness, is derived from my sensual perception of a scene. How I present this in the form of an image is sometimes an emotionally charged and inexplicable expression by my creative self. This is truly what inspires my inner vision, my intuitive style of capturing those magical, magnificent moments. I try to compose my photographs in a way that they will touch your heart and/or stir your soul. |
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Background
I was born and raised in northwestern Pennsylvania. This is where my
enjoyment of being in the natural environment began. Most of my idle
time was spent scouting around the woods in back of my home. I have
spent all but a few years of my life being surrounded by a temperate
deciduous forest environment. All but five years of my adult life have
been spent living in Vermont. It seems only "natural" that I
chose my career in the field of biology. I am a retired educator of
thirty years. In the last few years of my teaching career, I began
experiencing this driving urge to pursue nature photography, especially
close-up nature photography. |
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Training
I am an emerging artist. I do not have any "formal" training in this field; I am a self-taught photographer. I began my pursuit of photography by attending numerous workshops and seminars with notable nature photographers - John Shaw, Gary
Braasch, Art Wolfe, Patrick O'Hara, Dewitt Jones, George Lepp and Willard Clay among others. Most of my training comes from considerable practice, rigorous reading and utilizing instructional videotapes. |
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Accomplishments
I am published in two issues of Nature Photographer magazine. The first article (March/April, 1997) is entitled "Creative Seeing," and the second one (August/September, 1998) is entitled "KISS: Keep It Subtly Simple." Both articles are accompanied by several of my images.
One of my images was chosen for the postcard used as a major mailing advertisement for a large event here in the northeast. The postcard received a first place award for direct mailings of events in this area. It was used the following year also.
Presently, in collaboration with an accomplished poet, I am in the process of attempting to have a book
published titled "Another Light". I am also working on a book to be considered by the Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association for publication.
My images have been displayed in local galleries and sold by a unique Vermont artisan's retail establishment. |
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Affiliations
Monadnock Photographers' Guild
Yankee Photographic Society
New England Camera Club
Photographic Resource Center (Boston University)
National Association of Independent Artists
North American Nature Photographers Association |
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