I love fine art photography but I hate autobiographical sketches in spite of the fact that fine art sales are often the result of intense self-promotion. After six decades of fits and starts, trial and error, and overcoming mountains of self-doubt, I can start and complete a project that makes creative sense and excites viewers. I am humbled each time someone buys my work at a gallery and grateful beyond measure to know that my work from the Mojave National Preserve hangs in 20 different countries.
I live in La Mirada, California, where I create fine art images, but most of my capture time is in the Mojave. I am not a starving artist, but I have to eat, buy equipment, supplies and pay bills as most of us do and therefore I work in other photography areas as well and with other unrelated businesses.
I am an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop; teach fine art photography and Photoshop for Calumet Photographic and Desert Center Art Workshops. I also consult for corporate art departments, and tutor photographers and graphic artists in Photoshop and Lightroom skills and workflows. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to garner credits with trade and professional magazines as well as Parade, Life, Look, Roto, and other rack publications.
In 2008, I became the first Artist in Residence for Mojave National Preserve (MNP), a National Park Service program, and I am at work on some long-term projects as an Affiliated Artist for the Preserve as well. Along the way, I’ve become an Artist Guide for the MNP Desert Light Gallery and I’m currently at work on Back to Loneliness, a pictorial book of Mojave National Preserve’s different visual communities.
Projects are always in the works from the desert and other issues (see exhibits, workshops, books, etc.)
All of this matters, but of greater importance is the love of my sons Kyle and Bryce, their wives Amy and Sara, and grand kids Mars, Nixon, Ripley, and Liam. And because making sense of anything is seldom a solitary task my work owes much to friends, students and supporters who know that this this work we call art is task worth doing regardless of the rewards.
Please visit my website to view more of my art work.
