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:
Monocot is another macro photograph I spied at Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto using my M11, my 90mm F2 lens and the Leica macro adapter. I will stand for a few minutes before flowers and look for something special, something different, which does not have to be beautiful, must just be about my subject and their being. There are many beautiful flowers out there and I try to find something different about them.
