Through my photography, I share the things I see in the world around me and my ultimate aim is to have the resulting photograph appreciated by the viewer. To that end, I shoot in camera raw and use the various tools in my digital darkroom to achieve a high quality, realistic-looking photograph of what I saw.

We should never forget that photography is 'drawing with light' or 'painting with light'. My photograph is never finished until I have adjusted the light somehow with my digital brush. As a forensic photographer, I recorded the ugly side of life, the vile side of existence . . . then, one day it occurred to me that I wanted to capture the beauty of the world.

My decision to take a photograph is sometimes a surprise, that is, something I notice as I drive along a road, or a movement that catches my eye as I stroll through a park; but, more often, my creations are the result of a wonderful anticipation. I love the anticipation of a shoot, the anticipation of a visit to a new area. Then, during the post-processing in the digital darkroom, I edit the photograph to get an image that pleases me, an image that represents what I saw.

I feel there exists an immediacy in much of photography that does not exist in any other creative form. We all have seen examples of the photographer being in the right place at just the right time to capture an unforgettable photograph (e.g., Nick Ut's “Napalm Girl”). In many genres of photography there exists an immediacy which says, "Get it now or you will not get it at all."

On Flickr I make an effort to follow photographers who appear to have time to follow my work, i.e., those following under 1000 other photographers. An effort is made to check your work every 24 hours or so . . . and I do not hesitate to give clicks of approval when I like a piece. If you post more than one photo at a time, I choose the one I like best of the group.

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer, and often the supreme disappointment.” – Ansel Adams

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” – Ansel Adams

"I like to think of photography as the opposite of painting. Painters start with a blank canvas and start adding things to it, whereas photographers are presented with a scene full of details and must start eliminating things from it until it contains only the most important elements of the scene. Then, those elements must be arranged to create an interesting graphic design." - Anne McKinnell (in her article "4 Essential Ingrediens For Great Landscape Photographs")