Artist's Statement

My approach to photography has gradually evolved over the years. What started out as attempts to photograph beautiful places, has slowly transformed itself into a process of trying to capture the inner essence or quality of the landscapes and nature to which I am drawn.

For me, the natural world is my proper home. When I am on a trail in the high country, or in the desert, my senses come alive and I am the most aware of and in touch with the environment around me. Photography is easy and natural for me in these moments and time slips away unnoticed.

At the same time, photography has become far more challenging. I now try to capture an ephemeral moment when the play of light and shadow, color, textures, and patterns show a special quality of a subject. These qualities or “character and personality” of the natural environment, for lack of a better term, can be bold and obvious, and at other times subtle and hidden. But they can speak to us in powerful and spiritual ways that we need to be attuned to and aware of, or they will pass us by unnoticed.

In trying to capture those moments in my photography, I have tried to convey the sense of being there — the three-dimensional feel of the environment and its unique character and personality in that one moment in time.

In honoring and trying to capture and hold that special and transitory quality of each of these places, I have tried to convey to the viewer the awe and emotional connection that I had when I made the picture. Hopefully, in each image, the viewer will be able to not only see, but to feel, in that moment in time, the quality of light and color, the patterns of the trees and grasses, the smoothness of worn rocks, the morning chill of a mountain stream, and the touch of the wind.