About

I was born in 1946 in Pennsylvania, and raised west of Philadelphia in Chester County. I have a B.S. from the University of Maryland and an M.R.P. from the University of Pennsylvania. I spent most of my professional career as a scientist with the federal government, and retired in 2001 as a program manager of nuclear materials and facilities.

I began taking photographs as a child and became seriously interested when I was fifteen at the urging of a neighbor who was an art director at the National Geographic Society. In the 1970s, I became acquainted with the work of the late Eliot Porter – the first photographer to have a solo exhibit of color photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His work has been a great influence ever since. Much of my work has been in the state and national parks and refuges of North America, as well as Europe, Antarctica, and Africa.

I use Nikon digital cameras and lenses, and a 6x6 cm Bronica medium format camera for some landscape work. I process my photographs on a Macintosh computer, and do most of my printing on an Epson Stylus Pro 3800 wide-carriage printer using Epson archival media.

I’ve exhibited around the Washington area, and have been published in National Geographic World, and various U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service publications. I donate my work to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and to charities that sell my photographs to raise operating funds, including the Pride of Baltimore, Inc., and to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

My wife and I were married in 1969. We’ve lived in Maryland since 1980 and have two grown children.