Growing
up in California, my family vacations were often spent in some of the
more scenic areas of the California coast and of the Sierra Nevada.
Those vacations introduced me to the varied landscapes of my home
state. With my college years
came backpacking trips into the high Sierra – always with a folding
camera of some sort along for the ride.
However, other responsibilities and interests for many years kept
me from pursuing photography in a serious way.
In
recent years, the advent of digital printing, with its freedom from the
hassles of the traditional darkroom, has helped me overcome my native
laziness. No longer does
photography mean envelopes full of unprinted negatives and boxes of
neglected slides. Whether
shooting with film or with digital, I’m still drawn to the natural
world. Not necessarily to
the grand scenes of the California landscape, but usually to quiet, more
intimate scenes that are often bypassed without notice.
My
emphasis is not on subject matter, but on the visual, and sometimes
emotional, impact of an image. I
would like to think that my photographs may encourage the viewer to take
a closer look at the world around them…to notice the rich imagery in
our surroundings that so often slips by unnoticed and unappreciated.
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