"I think I was born to it. My Dad has always been a photographer. My brother is a photographer. It's just what we do."
His photographic journey began at the age of 12 as staff photographer for his junior high school yearbook. In high school, he shot pictures for the school newspaper. Once in college, he could be found wandering through the woods and around the towns with a couple of Nikons around his neck, seeking out every kind of interesting scene and event.
"I took a backlit shot of Bob Dylan on stage around 1971. It was made on black and white Tri-X film, pushed to probably 1200 ISO. It made a very grainy, high contrast image. I can drag out that old 8X10 print anytime and everyone immediately recognizes Dylan in silhouette; the hair, the harmonica... the icon of that period!"
During this time, a college photography professor taught him to sail and salt water seeped into the young photographer's blood. Sailing became his passion and his love of traveling to the islands and seaboards he dreamed of as a boy became his central focus. The wild and beautiful scenic seascapes would become images for him to capture. The journey became a visual feast.
With the advent of digital photography and its vast possibilities, the flame of the old passion was fanned. Now, as a mature, disciplined photographer, he will spend hours moving a piece of fruit around on a plate or days studying the way light plays on a landscape. "I feel the light," he says, of the innate intuition of a born artist.
And the fruits of the journey are here for all to see.