Between the Desert and the Mountains

The work you see here is the result of 25 years of practice and training. It began by my attending the U. S. Navy School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida in 1965. I was then assigned to a Naval photo intelligence center in Washington, D. C. for the remainder of my 4-year tour where I practiced portraiture on all the enlisted women and my soon-to-be wife.

I then worked for a prominent wedding and portrait photographer in Longview, Texas, Paul Miller, where I was taught color printing and wedding photography technique. This initial experience was not financially rewarding and I was accepted into college and received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1972. My photographic background helped me to pay the bills during this period. I worked for Bill Malone Photography in Austin, Texas who was the principle photographer for the Texas governor. I assisted him for two years and got to photograph the 1972 Texas Governor’s Inauguration.

Life always has a destiny for us however, and as successful as my career in engineering might have been, I was a plant manager and an international consulting engineer, I was somehow led to the southwest in 1994, picked up a camera again, and began my adventures photographing the deserts and mountains of the four corners region.

Living within a few hours of endless and spectacular scenery, I am captivated by its ever-changing beauty, and escaped to capture it with my lens whenever the chance arose.
Summers would find me in the Colorado Mountains and in winters I would migrate to the deserts of Utah and Arizona.

It is always the best light we photographers seek to find at just the right angle and at just the right time of day. We can’t control it we just need to be there when it happens. Many times this is at sunrise and sunset, but it can also be a rainbow after a pouring rain or a snowstorm or as the sun highlights the trees from the backside at midday.

Years of practice give me the vision I have today, and miles of walking and carrying the gear I consider essential to produce the finest image possible, give me the images I present on paper for your viewing.