Photography supports my visual exploration of the world around me. I try not to just record what I see, but to interpret and order it based on my life experiences and my sense of beauty and harmony. This creative activity is completely different from the demands of my engineering and business profession and is profoundly important to giving me balance in my life. I would do it even if no one ever saw my images but me.

I hope my images are revelatory -- that is, to show you something you haven't seen before, or something you are familiar with in a new or unexpected way.

As an engineer and a businessman, I am acutely aware of the need for all forms of art and artistic awareness in a world increasingly dominated by cynicism, ideology, sterile intellectualism, and industrialized ugliness. Beauty is something we can choose to see and feel, and hopefully we can develop our own ability to find (and demand from others) beauty and harmony in our personal surroundings. Perhaps my photographs will contribute to your finding and internalizing some of this beauty, if so I will be very happy.

Kit:

After 50 years of Nikons of all descriptions, I'm now Fujifilm all the way -- X-T5, X-100F, and a few lenses. I have a Manfrotto 190go tripod, and a few polarizing and neutral-density filters. Oh, and a Move-Shoot-Move astro rotator so I can shoot the galaxy without star trails.

DJI Mavic 3 Classic drone. Has a 20 MP Micro 4/3rds Hasselblad camera for video and stills. Oh, and an iPhone 15 Pro.

Equipment is of course not so important except that it should become an extension of your eyes and leverage your own creative impulses. "Never forget that all the great photographs in history were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own" (Brooks Jensen).

However, I spent a lot of time looking for a suitable camera bag before I found this one: the Domke model 701. Carries the body, two lenses, and little stuff; doesn't look like an expensive camera bag. It is small and made of waxed canvas, waterproof and indestructible. Doesn't even say "Domke" on the outside anywhere. So no, I don't carry a 40-pound backpack of equipment for a casual afternoon of shooting. Some of my friends do.

I bought a second bag as a spare, having a history of finding something so wonderfully unique and useful and then watching them stop making it. The second one now carries the drone, its controller, charger, and spare blades -- everything I need except the collapsible 30" nylon landing pad.

I use Capture One and occasionally a little Photoshop. I used to use Lightroom but Cap One is ever so much better for me.