I grew up in the southeast US, mostly in Oak Ridge, TN. Went to college at St John's in Santa Fe, NM for a year, went broke, stayed in SF for almost two years, moved to Manhattan, KS to go back to college, but couldn’t make up my mind what I wanted to do, so just quit and worked in a college bookstore for a while. I relocated to Minneapolis in about ’87 and worked in another college bookstore. I didn’t do much photography during the 90’s, concentrating mostly on life & career. I retrained to be a computer software engineer in '97, but after the Y2K frenzy I was a bit burned out and turned to photography again. I got into large format photography from a long-term desire. After 2010 or so, I quit 4x5 due to the demise of my favorite film (Readyloads) and did more digital and medium format photography (Mamiya RB67 & 7ii). More recently I've been using my Nikon Z8 a lot, giving digital another shot. I intend to dust off the 4x5 and film development gear in 2025 to get back into that now that I have more time and live in the southwest, so stay tuned. I intend to try publishing a blog at some point the winter (2024/5), more on that later.
I currently am retired and live in Santa Fe, NM and can be contacted via email at: