My interest in photography began in high school when I was an avid follower of Life and Look magazines, and later Popular Photography. I bought my first camera, an Olympus OM-1, and soon learned to take photos and process black and white film and make prints in a darkroom.

When I entered college, I became staff photographer and darkroom technician for the student newspaper, then did the same at a daily newspaper following college. My other aspiration was to be a reporter, and I had studied Journalism. So I soon went into reporting and editing, and essentially gave up serious photography for 30 years.

As I approached retirement 15 years ago, I enrolled in photography classes at the New Hampshire Art Institute in Manchester, attended many photo workshops and conferences, took private lessons and studied extensively on my own.

I especially enjoy travel photography and in recent years have visited the Great Sand Dunes, White Sands National Park, The Palouse in Washington State, the Snake and Columbia Rivers, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Mexico and most recently the Oregon coast and the Redwood forests in northern California.

Today, I manage two photography groups and coordinate exhibits at six microgalleries for artists in the central part of the Granite State. I teach classes and offers private lessons in digital photography and the use of Photoshop and other image-editing software programs.

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

― Marc Riboud