I’ve been making photographs for most of my life—as a career and for my own joy.

I’m now based in Park Rapids, Minnesota, where I continue to photograph, teach, and explore the quiet surprises of everyday places and people.

I’m a native of Fargo, North Dakota, and earned degrees from North Dakota State University and Minnesota State University–Moorhead. Over the years, I’ve worked with the Dakota Photo Documentary Project, spent time as a freelance photographer, and served as a staff photographer and graphics editor at The Bismarck Tribune. I later became Director of Publications and a photography instructor at the University of Mary in Bismarck. While I’ve retired from full-time on-campus teaching, I’m still very much in the classroom—now teaching online photography courses for both the University of Mary and Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, North Dakota.

My photographs grow out of curiosity and attention. For me, the joy of photography is the pure joy of seeing—of being aware of the people, things, and places around me. Photography is both self-expression and discovery. The camera famously points in two directions: toward the subject and back toward the photographer. Every image reveals a little of both.

I continue to make and share photographs while encouraging others—especially beginning photographers—to slow down, look carefully, and discover just how much there is to see.