Artist Statement

I have been a photographer of one sort or another all my life. I began as a volunteer apprentice (at about 10 years old) to the “town photographer” in the southern Vermont village where I grew up. He taught me how to use his unwieldy view cameras and his darkroom, which he used to make the photos he shot of the local events and citizens.

From the very first time I saw a blank sheet of paper in the developing tray magically turn into a photograph, I knew I had to be a photographer. That magic is still there for me, undiminished. I went on to a very different career, but always took pictures as an avocation. I did portraiture, advertising and commercial photographs, and a great deal of scientific and technical photography; but always as a sideline, until I retired from my “day job” and could do photography full-time.

I regard myself as a nature photographer, trying to capture and display the forms and aspects of our world. I want to show the underlying patterns and details in nature and the world in general, especially those elements which we usually see fleetingly or not at all. I am fascinated by the unimaginable complexity and richness of detail seen in all life, and do my best to capture it in my photographs.