Born in 1960 outside of Chicago, Illinois, my family moved to South Carolina at age eight. I took up the photographic hobby in high school, but found traditional film technology frustrating and confining. After serving in the military, I returned to South Carolina and obtained a degree from Midlands Technical College. After graduation I accepted a position as a legal assistant with a local firm, and continue to be employed in that field. My professional duties came to include evidentiary photography, and the advent of digital photography streamlined that process. Turning the technology to my artistic vision has proved invaluable, and provided me with improved control of the medium.

All images in this collection were captured digitally. Each image was developed in an image processing program, to reflect the visual and emotional response of the photographer to the scene before him.

The photographic act and the post-production process go hand in hand. My aim in the first is to capture an image that reflects my response to the scene before the camera, that requires only minimal post-processing, and that is graphic and dynamic.  My aim in the second is to process the image as gently as possible to achieve the pre-visualized image. Black and white photographs were captured in color for technical reasons but were pre-visualized as monochromes a vast majority of the time.

I have won numerous awards, including a Merit Award at the 2007 South Carolina State Fair, an Award of Merit at the 2008 Art Market at Historic Honey Horn, and second place in the monochrome division of the Welcome to My World exhbit.