I've been taking photos since 1970 when my college roommate let me try his single lens reflex camera loaded with black and white film. It became an obsession!
After completing my BA in economics, I attended Brooks Institute of Photography (Santa Barbara CA) for nearly 1 year. After months of 20+ hour days, I left Brooks with only about 40% of the course studies complete. Off to New York to earn a real living.
But the camera stayed behind for 40 years.
Years later, as retirement approached with a career in forest products sales, I decided to re-find my "eye" again.
It took me 2 or 3 years to start to "see" photo opportunities again. Landscapes were my initial focus. I soon discovered “street photography” with great success.
My photos have been shown in major Washington state photographic and art shows. Some of the awards won have been Best in Show at the Washington State Fair “ Photographers Salon”, Merit Winner at the SW Washington Juried Art Show and President’s Choice Ocean Shores Juried Art Show. One of my photos was published in “Seattle Magazine”, two others in “National Geographic” online. Nine times my photos were accepted for entry at the Collective Visions Juried Show where recently I won 2d place in photography.
Most recently, I’ve re-discovered images taken years ago but then passed over. With new techniques and styles learned, I process them today with skills I did not have years ago.

When I was a child, my mom asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I still recall my answer – “I want to sit on a park bench and watch people”. All these years later, that’s expanded to watching all forms of life from wherever I am. For me, the time spent observing builds to what the “grandfather” of street photography, Henri Cartier Bresson, described as “the decisive moment”. That’s when you press the shutter button in camera or my mind.
There are 5 images that make a photograph: what is seen, what is recorded in the camera, what is selected from the images, how it is edited and then what is printed.
Thinking now about how I "see”, most every image is a portrait - whether a human or a mossy old rock.
“You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi Berra.
That’s why I photograph.