I live in central Minnesota with my wife Susan who is also a photographer. I worked as a Quality/Reliability Engineer for 27 years until November of 2010, when laid off. If you are curious to see more of my professional background, look up my profile in LinkedIn. I am pursuing photography as a carrier change.
I am a self-taught digital photographer using various Canon equipment since 2003. I was previously a film shooter on a Canon A-1. I became semi-pro selling prints in a local framing shop and with launch of a website www.photonicvoyages.com in 2007.
My main photographic interest is to capture beauty wherever I see it and I have learned that if I keep my eyes open, it seems to be almost everywhere I go. A lot of my portfolio comes from what I call "drive by shootings" since I always try to keep a camera in the car with me. Traveling the back roads of rural Minnesota to and from work have given me many shots of indigenous wildlife and the changing seasons have provided many different perspectives of the landscapes seen every day. Vacation always equates to where can I find the best eye candy for my photographic obsession and has led to a great appreciation of the West and Pacific Northwest.
Primary equipment I use/have used for my work: EOS Digital Rebel, EOS 20D, EOS 1Ds Mark II, EOS 5D Mark II, EF 100-400mm f5.6L, 90mm Tamron Macro, EF 24-104mm F4.0L, MP-E-65mm Macro 1:2.8, EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II, EF 180mm 1:3.5 L Macro.
I have done all my post processing work with Adobe CS3/CS4/CS5 programs.
