I am an architect who retired from active design a year ago, and have been devoting much of my time to renewing my earlier passion for photography. My photographic interests are fairly broad, with a strong attraction to nature photography, specifically landscapes, birds, wildflowers, fungi, along with an appreciation for architectural and industrial photography, whether modern or not. I have a deep respect for both color and geometry, which I think I bring to my photography, whether nature or architectural.

I am a country boy who went to UC Berkeley, graduated with a Bachelor in Architecture, and practiced architecture for almost 4 decades, primarily in health care design. I started photography with a little Kodak in the 50's and graduated to a Nikon FTN in the 70's, doing nature and architectural photography. After years of neglecting photography, I now have the time to renew my passion

I choose to use a pocketable Canon S70 point-and-shoot camera hand-held for my work, as I like to travel light. I try to do the best I can with this limitation, knowing quality is compromised without a tripod. I believe that a good photograph is the integration of in-camera and out-of-camera image manipulation, so I use Photoshop to refine my images.