During college and the years immediately after my graduation, I took a detour from photography to concentrate on developing my career as a journalist. I returned to photography in the mid-1990s, first focusing my work on the landscape. I undertook much of my work in Montana, where I find such peace and renewal among the tall, rocky peaks, the lush green valleys and the clear-water rivers. I have since expanded my landscape work to include New Mexico, California and Alaska. And now, I am very excited to be working on an emerging project about Vietnam.

Photographic arts have never been more widely appreciated, especially as new technology and digital imaging expand the bounds of visual expression. Photography may have changed a lot since my father and I made that first print, but it still produces the same excitement and offers the same possibilities for self-expression as it did when I was a teen.  

In the last several years, I have been fortunate to study under Joyce Tenneson and Rodney Smith, two of today’s masters of portrait photography. I also studied with Kent Bowser, a similarly talented black-and-white landscape photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Linde Waidhofer, a master of color landscape photography. I have taken inspiration from photographers such as Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Michael Kenna and John Sexton, Keith Carter, and many others. I also appreciate the body figure work of Ed Freeman, Howard Roffman, Steven Underhill,  Joson, Herb Ritts and David Morgan.