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I'm deeply and continually engaged with visual art, especially painting, drawing, and printmaking. I have been curating and facilitating exhibitions of northwest art for about the last dozen years in the building where I work. Many northwest artists have exhibited their work at some point through the Art In Ecology program.

I've made a professional career of environmental planning, focused on protecting the ecological resources of Washington State shorelines while managing human uses in accord with Washington's Shoreline Management Act, RCW 90.58.

I'm a North American who is deeply fond of earthly geography, especially around the pacific northwest. I've enjoyed travelling in Italy, France, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Norway, and recently in Thailand.

A gift of living is constantly attending beauty among humans and across the landscape in passing....as well as giving expression to what comes from within. Photography is a way of attending beauty in the moments, everyday...and also a way of sharing the ephemeral...