1301 Louisiana Ave.

Come share my passion for the incredible medium of photography! When an image appears in my viewfinder or when editing is complete on my screen or the printer spits out a new print, and everything has come together to make the image WORK, a shiver goes down my spine. Photography has once again touched my soul. Yes, it takes a great deal of effort, but ain’t it GRAND when work is this much fun?

I create personal images almost daily. Sometimes it is for the sheer joy of making photographs and sometimes as an exercise to stay limber and “in shape.” Whichever, these images help to improve and evolve my commercial photography. But it works both ways. My commercial work, with its strict disciplines, helps to evolve my personal work.

As a professional photographer since 1980, my work is very much about service. The perfect job is one in which both my client and I are proud of the images we have created together and we part looking forward to our next collaboration. And every single portrait I create has been collaboration between the subject and me.

My philosophy about both digital technology (a Nikon system working with Photoshop on a Mac system) and my studio (a renovated 1913 grocery store) is to use these powerful tools to better serve my clients and to improve the work itself.

"Learning never ends” is my life motto. The more I learn about photography and the world around me, the more I am humbled by what I do not know.