“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In all things nature there is something of the marvelous.”
— Aristotle
“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.”
—Chief Seattle
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
— Annie Leibovitz
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
— Peter Adams
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt
“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
— Wayne Miller
“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
— Scott Lorenzo
My street portraits are pictures of strangers I meet as I travel around the world and are taken with available light. Faces come in an infinite variety and I am drawn to them. I love textures and the unique mystery of each person’s look. All of my wildlife photos, with the exception of one, have been taken in the animal’s natural habitats. I don’t attend paid workshops or game sanctuaries and I follow all the ethical guidelines for photographing wildlife as published by Audubon, National Geographic and the North American Nature Photography Association. My landscapes are typically taken at off the beaten track locations.
In 2019, this photograph was installed in the permanent collection of the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart where it was awarded the Mary Fedderson Memorial Award at the museum’s annual juried art exhibit. The photo was taken in Naja, Mexico which is near the Guatamalan border during a trip to find elders of the Lacandon tribe. It also earned small monochrome Print of the Month in 2018, Portrait Print of the Month in 2019 and Portrait Print of the Year in 2019 at the Chicago Area Camera Club Association.
This photograph won the Chicago Area Camera Club Association’s Nature Print of the Year in 2018, the fourth consecutive year of earning the honor.
This photograph won Nature Print of the Year in 2017 at the Chicago Area Camera Club Association and was the third consecutive year for receiving the honor.
This photograph won the Chicago Area Camera Club Association’s Nature Print of the Year in 2016 and was the second consecutive year of earning the honor.
This photograph was Nature Print of the Year in 2015 and was the first year of receiving the honor. This was taken at a Michigan workshop and a local volunteer brought the already deceased Cedar Waxwing, found on the roadside, to feed the merlin.
This image won Portrait Print of the Year at Chicago Area Camera Club Association in 2017.
This image won Portrait Print of the Year in 2018 at the Chicago Camera Club Association.
This photo earned Print of the Month in both small and large monochrome at the Chicago Area Camera Club Association. It also earned Best of Show in photography at the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago.
