My career began with the exclusive use of a 4x5 view camera and I continue to approach photography from a traditional landscape photographer's perspective. The view camera sets in relief the intimate details that are hidden from our everyday viewing. Often this is not the result of our inability to see, but because we've seen it too often.

Lately, I've been photographing with medium format and SLR digital cameras. There's a freedom offered by these formats which are enhanced by the discipline of maintaining the underlying "view camera philosophy". I enjoy photographing the dramatic western mountains and deserts; however, I continue to find that the Eastern U.S. Landscape offers a quality of light well suited to my photographic style. I've expanded my subject matter to include roads, the American beach scene and the underlying beauty and devastation from Hurricane Ike.

Road trips are my meditation and provide a sense of freedom especially when you have no itinerary. See where the open road takes you. This love of the road has led me to provide an updated view of the American road.

Another subject that catches my interest is man's (and woman's) footprint upon the landscape, as well as nature's footprint on mankind. Nature's footprint includes the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, a Category II Hurricane with a Category IV Storm Surge. I was initially very tentative photographing the aftermath due to the tragedy associated with this storm. But, now I seek to interpret and document the devastation to bring it into the American conscience - especially, since it's already faded from the nations view 4 months later, but the Bolivar Peninsula is still in need of help just to finish the clean-up.