Welcome to my new photo gallery site. I’m overhauling the entire site, so please stop back from time to time as the site expands.
From the time my parents bought me a 35mm square frame point and shoot camera when I was in junior high school, photography has been my passion. Then, early in college, I bought my first SLR, a Miranda Sensorex, which was then rated highly by Consumer Reports. That camera was a close friend for many years until it started to fall apart mechanically, which turned out to be a major reason for Miranda’s demise as a company. In the late 1980’s, I bought a used Minolta SLR, which took me through to when I finally made the switch to digital early in the 2000’s, at first using a DSLR from work, but now relying on my pocket-size Canon PowerShot 260 HS and my Samsung Galaxy S5’s camera.
I received considerably support and encouragement from, oddly enough, my college philosophy professor, Bill Beidler, whose generosity will forever be appreciated. He not only spent considerable time with me, but he allowed me to use his darkroom.
I was enamored with Minor White during my college years. At one point, I wrote him a letter, saying that I was going to be visiting Boston and would love to meet him. (I learned this outrageousness of it-never-hurts-to-ask from my mother.) He responded and invited me to stop by his home. When I knocked on the door a few weeks later, some of his students greeted me and invited me in for tea. He was gracious and very kind in his comments about what was so-so photography. But, again his encouragement was greatly appreciated. Decades later, I was at a center where many of the Biosphere 2 people are now located. I started to talk with one of the people about Minor White and my visit, and it turned out, he was probably one of the students who greeted me. Small world…!
Then, several years later, I had the opportunity to take a photography course at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. The instructor (I wish I could remember his name) turned my photography world upside down. He also was tremendously generous. I am forever grateful for his influence on the way I see and relate to photography.
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For me, photography is a personal experience of moments of connection. It’s that split second before we conceptualize and categorize… the immediate connection to what you see. And, that is the most powerful aspect of photography for me. Although I appreciate some of the creative manipulation artists do with photography, I love the extraordinary-in-the-ordinary of minimally manipulated and cropped photos.
But, not all of my photography is that of immediate connectedness. Some is conceptual. And, still others are documentary — of family, friends, Vietnam War era protests, visits of great Tibetan Buddhist teachers, and moments with interesting and renowned people like Gregory Bateson, Allen Ginsberg, and others.
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Navigating
I’ve tried to organize these photos around various themes and categories as shown in the menu at the top. However, most photos do not easily fit into any one category. More often than not, they fit into multiple categories and themes. In some cases, I have included the same photo in multiple categories, but most reside in just one category. You may want to ponder where else they fit.
Note that the thumbnail images do not always display the entire image. Clicking on images will reveal the entire image.
Also, if you hold your pointer over an image, the title will appear. If you click on an image, it will appear as a larger photo in a floating window with the title below it. In this view, you can scroll through all of the images in that particular gallery with the right and left arrows on the sides of the images or with your mouse scroll wheel.