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I chose photography as a career after attending the Ansel Adams’ Workshop in Yosemite in 1979. I discovered then and still believe that my work can make a difference. I hope to use my photography to document the changes I experience in my lifetime as well as help preserve those things worth saving.
As I work, I must enjoy the process. However, if the work doesn’t mean something to me, I quickly abandon it. It needs to have a higher purpose than to simply be beautiful. It needs to say something about the world, about life, about being here now. But it’s also about exploration. Sometimes the work doesn’t reveal its meaning immediately. I may have to work for it. I can usually tell if there is a sweetness at the core, because the deeper I go, the more energized I get by the process.
My current work is found in the historical section of this website. I was a commercial fisherman for 20 years, and I still am in many ways, just not on a boat these days. When I fished, I photographed as often as I felt I could while I was engaged in the fishing, and now, some 30 years later I find myself grateful that I photographed all that I did. As I discover the old images anew, I find they are testimony to a life full of hard work, strong personalities and a unique place and time.
