Biography

Have you ever felt that you needed to reinvent yourself, to find a new you?

In high school I bought a 35mm camera and started taking my first photographs that didn’t contain family and friends.  I grew up in New England, which provided an ample supply of colorful autumns in New Hampshire, sandy beaches on Cape Cod, and rocky coastlines in Maine.  I attempted, with limited success, to photograph all of it.   But life went on.  I did a tour in the Navy, then went to college for quite a long time. Following school, I had a 20+ year career doing work that I absolutely loved.  Along the way, I traveled and vacationed, always with my camera.  I learned something very important in these travels.  If you really want to capture a location, an image, a landscape, you need to be there when the time of year is right, time of day is right, the weather is right,  and most importantly, the light is right.  It is all about the light. This is the great limitation of the travel photography that I’ve done.  Just passing through a location for the hour or day does not afford the opportunity to scout locations and wait for the ‘right light’.  Did I mention that it was all about the light.

Due to some life events, the kind of things we all experience from time to time, I found the need to reinvent myself.  Three years ago, I left the career that I absolutely loved. I sold the bulk of my belongings and downsized from the house I owned, and moved into an RV affectionately named Rocinante’..  I now live full time on the road, seeking out the images that had only dreamed of before.  Although I am mobile, I stay most places between two weeks  and a month or sometimes several months.  I hope that this affords me the time I never had while “vacationing”.

It was frightening to leave behind the life I had made for myself and reimagine a new one. But I’ve not looked back, not once.