I grew up in Minneapolis, imprinting a love (or at least tolerance) of cold weather that unfortunately remains after over 39 years living in Houston. After high school I headed east to Amherst College, where I majored in Geology, and began a love affair with photography. During my M.S and Ph.D. graduate studies in Geology at The Pennsylvania State University I also worked for the U.S. Geological Survey. After a 32-year career with Shell Oil Company I continues to teach geology for companies and universities across the country. In 2015 I was an American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer.

As it turns out my work is shaped by my early adventures as a geologist, and thus my photographs chronicle what I find visually and intellectually intriguing in the natural world. Understanding the physical processes that create patterns in nature allows me to capture unusual impressions and abstractions of the visual landscape. The common thread across this work is the effect created by the distortion of light, color, and shape created either by ripples in a spring, the convoluted fracturing of a cliff face, or the impurities in a 400-year-old pane of glass”.

Although I took an advanced art class in college, and have been a lifelong photographer, I only began unleashing my artistic side with fervor in 2007, and have been a member artist of Archway gallery since 2011. I am a member of the Houston Center for Photography, the Houston Arts Alliance, Pixels and Silver, and the Fort Hood Portrait Project, which partners with the USO to provide free portraits of soldiers and their families at Ft. Hood each year. My work has been accepted into a number of juried shows across the U.S., and Europe and is in homes and offices in The U.S., France, Switzerland, Great Britain and Mexico, and public spaces in Seattle, and Bellaire, Texas. My work has also been featured in “Spotlight Contemporary Arts Magazine Issues 15, 17, 23, and 27.