My interest in photography began in my 20’s through inspiration from my father and with the Canon AE1 he passed to me. Engagement with technical training began years later at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts and continues through to this day with my mentor, Danielle Austen, various guides in the field, and anyone whose work inspires me. With what I was always told was “a good eye” and technical training, I became ever more drawn into the rewards and the many challenges of creating art. To my surprise, I was an artist! 

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.  When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
- Ansel Adams

My day job as a psychologist is one of developing relationships, a kind of intimacy through which to heal. Words, emotions, thought and science are the tools of that trade. As a photographer, I treasure using my emotions and not using words to create another kind of intimacy, one that is shared among the viewer, my subjects, and myself.

Where the scientist asks what equation would best describe the trajectory of an airborne rock,
the artist asks what it would feel like to throw one.
- Bayles & Orland (Art & Fear)