My first experience with a camera was at age14 using an old “Argus Range Finder”. I attended Elon College in North Carolina, where I took a basic photography class. After graduating I took a few more courses and ended up as a Staff Photographer at the Atlantic City Press in NJ. Here I learned to shoot professional sports and action photography. I did this for four years. After that I began doing fine art photography. As an abstract thinker, I tend to think outside the box. I can go from photojournalism to street photography, to abstract, conceptual, etc. Currently I am finishing up work on a black and white photography book project based in Lancaster County, PA. The project covered 4500 miles of driving broken up into various trips throughout the last couple of years. The project covers everything from the Amisha and Mennonite way of life to the new housing projects threatening their way of life. They have been there over three hundred years. I photographed anything on any given day that I happened upon at any given moment. Currently, I am continuing my Mannequin project with five full body mannequins that I build and accessorize to build my own models from. After my present book project, I plan to publish another book encompassing my life’s work in photography. I have worked in 35mm 2.25 medium format and 4x5 film photography. I have extensive experience in the dark room making silver gelatin fine art photographs. Currently I shoot with 3 Nikon D850 bodies and two D810 bodies. I also have 2 D800 bodies converted to shoot infrared photographs and 15 Nikon lenses.