Bio:
I was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and still have most of my photos beginning when I was 8 or 9 years old (that people thought were weird). I left for College and Grad School in Minnesota, where I took a photography class and dabbled in B&W film for a couple of years before giving it up for decades. Why? I sold my cameras and dark equipment after my professor gave me a bad grade because he said my photos “looked like Lee Friedlander’s photos,” and then justified his decision when I confessed that I had no idea who Lee Friedlander even was way back when. Early retirement and the pandemic rekindled my interest in photography and prodded me to buy a digital camera. I’m passionate about using photography to show others the ordinary, and not so ordinary, things I encounter in everyday life from my own perspective. Being the son of an Architect, I see shapes and forms and geometric patterns everywhere I look, in landscapes, flora or on the street, and try to capture those scenes in a compelling fashion with my Leica cameras. I prefer using my monochrome cameras as B&W (and B&W infrared) is my favorite medium, but I do shoot some landscapes and, of course, most macro flora photographs in color.
Statement:
Blue Lily is a macro photograph I captured at Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto using my M11, a 90mm F2 lens and the Leica macro adapter. I find beauty in every stage of a plant’s
