My relationship with photography began as a child. My father was an aerial reconnaissance photographer before and during WWII and our house had examples in the bookcases for me to discover, playing on the floor. Photography has not been my professional career, but has been practiced seriously for 40+ years, even if for only a small percentage of time. The “day job” as an electronics engineer has financed my relationship with photography and has led me to places not often seen. Retirement has allowed an increased focus.

When making photographs, I am seeking to capture a kind of resonance with places to which I feel strong emotional ties. I may begin composition analytically, but let that go and allow the image as a whole to make that resonance within. Photography is a way to look and point attention to the interaction of humans and their landscapes. Some of those interactions are seeing subjects separate from the objects in the image – faces, creatures and abstractions in the rocks and trees. Some see them and others do not – they have always been with me.

I see the majority of my photographs as portraits. They all say to me – EARTH – My home and home planet. The language they speak is most often the chaotic interplay among rock, life, time and light. When I see them, I know where I am. Even the ones that may appear as something other than the objects actually photographed – the language they speak still says – Earth – the illusion retains that message. Our human culture also appears in that interplay. We are both constrained and enabled in our creations by the materials given up to us by our planet. All these photographs reflect a powerful sense of time and place for me and a respect for the intimate relationships with the land that have been my privilege. It is a dance that I actively seek out. It is not rational, it just happens.”

Each of us has a special relationship with certain places and moments, whether they are in a city, a neighborhood, or the wilderness. I join many other photographers in striving to express this in my work. I have become attentive to time and its effects on the landscape and cultural structures – visual history. Places that have been left alone for very long periods or have never been disturbed much by us are special places to me. There is a renewal that happens there that I want to share. If there is a common theme in my work, it is the cycles of time, visual perception and the path of my own two feet – an expressive form of personal journalism perhaps.