We tell our stories and we treasure our fading memories, as we forget most of our own lifetime. Only recently in human history have we been able to preserve images over time, and I see in that fact a responsibility to the future. In the course of my lifelong love of photography, a camera has been a means of leaving open a window to a moment that rushed by into the shrinking past.

My earliest film and digital images were mostly candid portraiture of friends and family; for reasons of privacy those (many hundreds of photos) are not included here in my Public feed. I seldom stake-out a spot at a particular time of day, or stage a photo, or perform a lot of exposure/focus bracketing. I generally do extemporaneous hand-held photography, so you won't find a lot of very long exposures, super-telephoto, or post-processed combinations of bracketed images. Also, I don't shoot or edit for portable viewing medium: you can't really experience photos on a smart phone or a symphony on an AM radio.

What you will find in this collection is a dizzying variety of wonderful photographs; experiments with style, subject, and composition that exercise the camera's versatility as a tool of communication. I deliberately post photos to my timeline that are different enough each time to refresh one's eyes from the previous posting. My Photostream makes a nice slideshow. As well, I've placed many of these photos in themed Albums, if you'd like to view a particular type of photo.

Reflexively, I'm not a city guy. Not a big fan of human behavior in dense groups. To my eye, our modern cities look like the ruins of a near future. Gone in 200 years. Cairo as we know it will disappear, but the pyramids will remain. My preference is for small towns, humble encampments, islands, and the ocean; I like old things, with honest character, carved by time. In that light I like to showcase what has endured of those who came before, the evidence of a hand willfully expressing a person's existence beyond their lifetime. Doing them a final favor.

I enjoy recording nature's elemental competition and the great wealth of wildlife around me: there, I see rational creatures confronting their reality.

Other photos in this collection are contemplative, and deserve some time, I say, and a big hi-res screen. Some are as gritty textured as a fuzz-tone guitar solo. Some get pithy titles to anchor their visual message. Some are humorous. Some are pure ambience. Some are celebrations of life, of fulfillments: however modest or diminished. Some will place you somewhere unexpected in the scene. Or in time. Some are instruments for social commentary: I love photos that make you think. Finally, some are simply inspired by the way they still make my eyes feel, like when these images first passed through them.

I've lived aboard a sailboat in Santa Cruz California for more than 30 years, a lifestyle that has me immersed in a dynamic natural environment with lots of wonderful wild critters. I live floating at the boundary of sea and sky, on the edge between coastal civilization and a fantastically wild Marine Sanctuary; tethered to Earth with only a few ropes. That set of conditions is what I call "home", in the deepest sense. Conditions where tripods fear to tread. Positioned as it is, my home aboard is practically a nature blind from which photographic opportunities constantly present themselves. I also like to travel, especially in the tropics.

While my first choice for adventure is by sail, I have spread my wings and stretched my legs too. My Photostream offers a montage tweezed from that restlessness. One day in the coming few years my companion and I hope to set sail, and head to more tropical settings to drop the hook for our next home base.

If you enjoy this gallery, please Follow, and you can look forward to new photos appearing every week, at least. When you look for commonality in this work, it may be that my pursuit of doing something different each time is the common thread. I celebrate fellow photographers as we each try to record a special slice of the fantastic world around us. Cheers all.