Artist Bio
Although glassblowing was his "day job*," he continued to practice the art of photography, studying photography with Edmund Teske at UCLA for a year. The two different mediums are connected by light. The magic of glass is in its ability to transmit and reflect light while photography is the capturing of light.
His love of taking photographs of our beautiful native wildflowers contributed to his interest in botany. He led trips for the California Native Plant Society, the Native Plant Society of Oregon, Bark, Oregon Wild (formerly ONRC), and Portland Audubon. For sixteen seasons, he was a naturalist/guide for the Middle Mountain Foundation, leading hikes in the Sutter Buttes of the Sacramento Valley in California. "Beauty of the West," a book of his photographs was published in 2007, "Owner Decorated Vehicles" in 2009, "Alaska!" in 2010, "An Intimate View of Japan" in 2011, "Pacific Northwest Architecture - A Photo Essay" in 2012 and "A Landscape Transformed" in 2017.
His photographs have won numerous awards including Best Urban Landscape Photographer 2015 and many 1st place awards. Issue #123 of Lenswork magazine published 46 images from the series "A Landscape Transformed" including the cover. The Sierra Club Engagement Calendar published one of his photographs in 2021 and 2023. The Portland Japanese Garden's 2022 calendar will feature his photograph on the cover and the 2023 calendar will also feature two of his photographs. B&W magazine and All About Photos magazine have published multiple portfolios of his work.