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Map The Yukon

Wired In San Diego

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ABOUT ME

ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography has been a part of my life me since the age of 12 when I built my own darkroom and took a class in middle school. I still have my film camera but love the new technology more. In recent years I’ve become very ‘focused’ on the essential blend of technology, eye, mind and light. I started my business just a few years ago, and have been enjoying a wonderful mix of diverse opportunities and fantastic clients ever since.

I believe diversity is just as important as specializing. Diversity brings greater creativity and opportunities for experience, as well as ideas on how to introduce techniques from one area of photography into another. Just as no two clients are the same, so too are now shoots the same. Every person and every shoot is personalized. Creativity and being but a brief part of people’s lives are two additional elements that compel me to photograph professionally.

MY BACKGROUND
I was raised in a creative, artistic and technical environment. My mother was a teacher of art, and later a chief artist in her career. She created many amazing, large scenic works of art with fabric and thread, some of which are on display in prominent public places. My father is an artist, too. As a surgeon he discovered, created, and provided pioneering ways to give life. Add to this my step-father, who was an art professor and renowned watercolor and mixed-media artist, whose works are of, and in, many wonderful places.

I studied at the undergraduate and graduate level in the arts and sciences, focusing among other things on using technology to create and visualize the space around us. I became very accomplished in computer mapping and the abstract use of space. These skills I applied with my affinity for computer programming. Over the years I published a number of articles, graphic projects, and applications, and these earned me a number of local, state and international awards.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to meeting and working with you soon!

ARTICLES
In my previous careers - before focusing exclusively on photography - I spent two decades conducting computer mapping, engineering, and working as an IT director. During that time I published several papers. I'm including a couple of them here since they are still of interest to those in the field, but also because it provides a different example of some of my graphic work and writing. I hope you enjoy the articles as much as I did developing them.