“There are always two people in every picture, the photographer and the viewer.”  ~ Ansel Adams

I grew up in a working class family in New England. Both of my parents were amateur photographers, so as kids my siblings and I had cameras too. Posing and taking photos was natural for us. My brother became a dedicated photographer right out of high school and has been a talented, acclaimed news photographer for the past 40 years.

I became engaged with photography in the ‘80s, and it was 2001 when I decided to create abstract digital art from nude photographs. I discovered two important things: first, I was not a digital artist, and second, I enjoyed the creativity of photographing people along with the technical skills critical to being successful with studio lighting and digital photography.

Since then, I have spent thousands of hours shooting tens of thousands of images of hundreds of subjects. Every shoot is different and I still love it.