Over 50 years ago, my father placed one of his old Kodak cameras in my hands and showed me which button to press to take a picture. For a while, he was my personal Kodak - I pressed the button, and he did the rest – but before long, I was in the darkroom beside him, watching the magic of images emerging on paper under the red glow of the safelight, and I was hooked.

First came yearbook and school paper photography in high school and college, and then I spent a few years doing wedding photography on weekends. More recently, I joined the wave of photographers switching from film to digital and have returned to making my own prints. My “darkroom” today – an iMac on my desk and an Epson printer – is much better lit and much less smelly than the one I inherited from Dad decades ago.

Photography remains only a serious extracurricular activity for me, although I hope to turn it into some kind of revenue stream by the time I retire from my day job – at least enough to fund my Martini habit. Outside the studio, I am especially fond of photographing landscapes, travel, wildlife, theater, and (as Facebook friends know) food & drink. In the studio, I do portraiture, product, and publicity photos. My galleries here on Zenfolio illustrate the diversity of my subjects.