Photography has been an essential part of my creative background since my early days ( self trained)  serving as a photographer for my high school paper and later as a drafted US Army journalist and photographer, 1967- 69, in southeast Asia. At this time, I toured, photographed, and reported on the visits, (more like investigations) of US Senators and programs such as the Bob Hope show in southeast Asia, a B-52 (with atomic bombs)  crash landing on Okinawa.  I also worked with David Black, photographer for National Geographic magazine and wrote and photographed personalities such Ray Manzerich, drummer of Doors, music group and Keith Jarret, jazz/classical pianist, for UPI and Stars and Stripes military news agency.
         In returning to Cal State University Long Beach, and graduate studies in printmaking, I landed employment as a free lance photographer for Bardol  (oil corporation) and New Directions (advertising agency)  in Los Angeles. 
         My primary work with Bardol involved photographing (for legal purposes) the infamous Santa Barbara channel oil spill, as an offshore oil rig spilled millions of gallons of crude into the ocean and the effects of this raw oil had on the California coastline. And, my work for New Directions was entirely based on photographing various products for advertising purposes. This work was not as exciting or demanding but it paid for my graduate education.   
         I mention all this to emphasize my long time association with photographic images and words, and that, I believe, my photography (mostly 35mm) to be straight forward, well composed and technically skillful interpretations of people, places and events.
         Even today, with digital 35 mm digital cameras and Photoshop, I continue to use photographic images of nature, intersections of human/nature themes as the most important portfolios of my artistic/professional career. These images also occur in my power point presentations given to Trout Unlimited and other conservation groups on various topics on fly fishing, fly tying and contemporary environmental issues directly related to the rivers, insects and animals of our high country. My photographs and photo-based media work have been published in several books and exhibited nationally in many solo exhibitions. 
         I as a freelance photographer, I do best working with people, events, select commercial products, architecture and all nature or environmental themes. And although my cameras are digital and I digitally edit my photo’s -- I have no desire to over manipulate or create “photoshop images.”
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