A lifetime of looking closer

My life with a camera began at eleven, with a Nikkormat and a small darkroom in my basement. Long before a photograph appeared on a screen, I knew the wonder of watching an image emerge on paper. That feeling — of discovering something worth holding onto — has never left me.

In high school and college, I ran a photography business, making photographs for personal injury and property damage cases, as well as real estate. That work taught me to pay attention: to the details that tell a story, and to what a photograph can reveal when we look carefully.

Since then, I have traveled around the world with a camera. On family trips, there is often a day we call my “walkabout” — time to wander without anyone moving me along. A street, a shoreline, a flower, a fleeting reflection: I can follow whatever catches my eye, and stay until the light has finished its conversation.

I embraced digital photography when it first arrived, beginning with a 2.6-megapixel camera. Today I photograph with a 45-megapixel Nikon and my iPhone 17 Pro Max. The tools have changed; the impulse has not. I am still drawn to light and beauty, to unexpected shapes and textures, and to those moments that ask us to pause.

“See it the way I do” grew out of what others said about my photographs. It became an invitation: to step into my way of seeing, if only for a moment. These collections are pieces of that ongoing journey — not just where I have been, but what made me stop and look.