Born in Wisconsin, 1953. Lived in Northern California from 1977 to 1993, then in Central Virginia until 2018. Currently living in Northern Nevada.

I have been photographing since my university years, full time since 1999. I feel that I am finding my way to a consistent view of the world and have developed a number of projects that reflect this view. Prior to embarking on photography full time I had a 20 year career in the technology world. I spent almost enough time in the Fine Art Program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to leave with a degree in Fine Art, but switched to Electrical Engineering since that was where my real interests lay at the time. On graduation I resumed photographing as much as I could.

I shoot [almost] all color, and until 2004 was having Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) prints made. At that time I was forced by circumstances beyond my control to switch to digital printing. This turned out to be a revelation for me. As pleased as I was with the printing being done for me, the fine control available in Photoshop and the latest generation of digital printers enable me to produce prints that are the equal or in many cases exceed the quality and depth I was getting from Cibachrome. After shooting 35mm for a very long time I switched to medium format film in 6x7cm and 6x17cm formats. I am shooting digital more and more and have been using Nikon full frame and Fuji medium format digital cameras for some time now. It's unlikely that I will soon give up the 6x17 film format. I do all my own scanning on a virtual drum type scanner, do all my own digital darkroom and printing work.

I do the vast majority of my photography in the arid west. I prefer to shoot locations and man made sites that are relatively unknown or anonymous.

There are many photographers whose work I admire and respect a great deal, too many to list completely. However, a few contemporary photographers are Richard Misrach, Naoya Hatakeyama, Edward Burtynsky, Jeff Brouws, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Mark Klett.

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