I’ve been interested in photography since I was 11 years old, about 1974. At that time I had my first camera, a Kodak box camera that would shoot 120 medium format black and white film. I taught myself to develop film in cereal bowls in my bedroom with the blinds drawn. You may have guessed this produced less-than-quality images, but persistence is as good as gold and I eventually had a darkroom set up in the basement with an enlarger and all the chemicals, trays, and equipment you sometimes see in the movies. I LOVED black and white photography. It was brilliant what you can do with it. I eschewed the digital age until 2000 for family snapshots but progressed to my first good digital camera in 2008.  Many of the images featured in my work were taken way back in 2008 though I am still producing many images in the current era. 

So, you see, I’ve always been interested in photography and am an avid photographer. I’ve lived in Haywood County since 2002 and absolutely love the landscape here. It is so wonderful to be able to capture it photographically and produce photos with the lush fall colors, the mist, the early morning sky colors, and of course the kaleidoscopic colors of evening sunsets.