I became interested in photography in the early 1960's, finding it a way to nurture a fondness for art. Over the next 10 years and while working as a welder in a boiler shop in Canada I studied photography on the fly and also spent countless hours in the company of artist friends. Artists love a good argument, it keeps the mind pliable.
In the early 70's I photographed and wrote for a local newspaper, did photography for politicians, sport fishing, etc. and opened a portrait studio/camera store. I loved black and white imaging, and the latitude that medium allowed both in camera and in the darkroom. It was in those images I expressed myself where with the slightest deviation of tone, one could evoke sundry emotions. In those years I sought more artist companionship and we'd sit and discuss all manner of thought and aim and goal of communication.
I learned that the camera is a tool as is a paintbrush and palette, a screwdriver and hammer, and that as needful as tools are in our quest to implement vision they must remain in our hands, not our hearts. It is what we see and feel and imagine that we need to hold high as we work our canvases.
But by 1978 I moved to the U.S. and having a need to eat went back into the steel industry, eventually opening a fabricating business, which I named Miami Steelworks.
By 1999 I decided to once again feed the gnawing passion for art, and began photographing the Florida Everglades in color, while writing novels, short stories and even some poetry.
