My first interest in photography was when I was 10 years old.
The camera I was using then was a Kodak 110 Instamatic that I had won in a school raffle. Years later, my dad gave me a Balda 35mm range finder camera followed by a Nikon F. To this day, I’ve kept both of these cameras.
My father was strict about me learning to shoot black and white before venturing forward with color. He was right!

These days my enthusiasm lies with digital photography. However, when the light and other elements are right, I will use my film cameras. My websites have given me the creative outlet that I didn’t have in the days before digital.

For many years I had taken pictures just to record something or someone that I had seen. I was not taking the time to experience what I was capturing with the click of my shutter. Approximately nine years ago, I had the opportunity attend a daylong photography course with Joel Meyerowitz at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. He asked the class “Why do you take pictures?”
Somehow I knew that the response shouldn’t be as simple
an answer as “I like to!”.

The truth is that I am still working on the answer to that question.
When I am taking pictures, I am always thinking about what my viewer is going to experience and feel when they see what I am witnessing through my lens at that particular moment.

My time is split living between Boston and Truro. Cape Cod has a wealth of subjects to photograph, especially in the off-season when the summer visitors are gone. I prefer shooting landscapes, abandoned buildings and found objects. These subjects reflect the peaceful solitude of Cape Cod’s off season, but reveal the potential of the coming summer.