My professional background is in land planning and many of my photographs are of designed urban spaces. Of course, beyond and sometimes within designed spaces are things or relationships with little or no conscious design - and I photograph that as well. If you are interested in my treatment of architecture and the human experience of space - or want to address them in a new project - I hope you will make contact or offer a comment. Thanks for visiting! |
 
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I am a native of the American Midwest. My family of origin live in the Chicago area. I left to complete college in Minnesota and wound up living there and pursuing more education for 40 years. For the time being, I am living near Milwaukee, WI. My career interest has been in land planning and my photography is very much oriented to both the built and natural elements of cities and sometimes the incidental views I happen upon. Photography arose indirectly from the efforts of those who owned, planned, drew, painted, and designed the landscape to achieve effects that were both functional and picturesque. But, all these efforts take place under the sun and the vagaries of weather, geologic forces, time, and chance. The photographers I admire most have recognized these realities and used their cameras to document them: people like William Henry Jackson, Eugene Atget, Ansel Adams, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, and street photographers like Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Gary Winogrand. My photos barely scratch the surface of the existence they probed so deeply, but I am trying. The best advice most aspiring photographers will ever get is to just keep shooting pictures. Eventually, things will come into focus.
Chicago
Incidental
Architecture and Cityscapes
Land, Water, and Sky
Found
