Photography as Art, A Lifelong Passion

Homer Spit, Alaska

Ever since I could remember I liked having a camera in my hands. At age two I loved to “play” with an old Kodak Brownie box camera, by age five I began taking “snaps” around my yard with an updated version of the Brownie,  and at age eleven with yet another version of the Brownie,  I began photographing the landscape during my family summers in Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado.   These early years with several of Kodak’s boxed marvels began my life with photography as both “art, passion and love of our Natural World” that eventually became a deeply personal pursuit.

I eventually left the old Kodak Brownies behind and began shooting with 35mm Nikon film cameras, primarily birds using a Nikon with a 600mm lens.  My work was published in calendars (Audubon, National Wildlife, etc), magazines (Birder’s World and others)  and books such as “Texas On My Mind” by Falcon Press.  During this time I visited an exhibition of Ansel Adam’s large prints at the Houston...