Bio

My approach to photography springs from my years as a painter: experience that has forged my aesthetic as a visual storyteller. I’m not interested in the literal depiction of a moment in time as I would be if I was on an editorial assignment shooting for a news magazine. As a fine art photographer, I treat my images much like I would a painting. Digital tools have replaced my darkroom in which I spent many years, and pixels in my camera’s sensor have taken the place of grains of silver on film. I’m very proud of the fact that my painting, “Picnic with the Travel Aire 1926”, was purchased by the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum for its collection. My oil painting of Georgia Neese Clark, the first female U.S. Treasurer, resides in the Truman Library and two of my paintings are part of the Air Force Art Collection headquartered in the Pentagon. My fine art photography has been selected for inclusion in multiple juried shows, most notably at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado and the MPLS Photography Center in Minneapolis. It also lives in numerous private collections and has been shown in commercial galleries in Kansas and Colorado.