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I am a deeply passionate man driven to experience beauty and express it outwardly through my image making.

I first picked up a camera under the tutelage of the renowned Harold Feinstein who taught me to see with my heart, not my eyes, and certainly not the camera.

Impressionist painters have had perhaps more influence upon me than photographers as I am drawn to how color creates shape and form, less interested in specific and definable line, and far more interested in seeking out the essence of what is within the subject, the energy of it, the feeling of it. This pursuit, in fact, is how I came to create Cloudscapes, and, especially, my pinhole work

Lately, I've been only using digital for my continuing journey into colorful pinhole abstractions, and caught the vintage bug with old cameras and film, meandering back to the magic of image making which, for me, is quite different than an interpretation of image making.

I want to hold a camera that has been held by many before me, and has seen many things, and I simply become a part of the continuing story of that camera and lens, a story that will continue long after me.

There is something deeply inspiring about using an instrument like this, about feeling the history in such an instrument, the life experience that it has acquired. You just can't feel that way about something fresh out of a box.

I can't wait to pick up my Leica, or Rollei, or Retina, or any of the others, and to actually burn an image, a real image, onto the surface of a chemical emulsion, rather than a sensor interpreting an image.

I especially feel like a boy again, jumping up and down with bursting joy in seeing for the first time, this old and smelly equipment in my hands, and that lovely chemical surface of emulsion!

I hope you like some of the things that you see here!