After flirting with careers as an archaeologist, pilot, concert pianist, and diplomat, I settled on photographer after just a few month’s residence in Heidelberg, Germany, while studying for my Masters in Comparative Literature. I was captivated with the potential for personal interaction with people of a wide variety of cultural and social environments. Exploring the world of others—and being of lasting, valuable service to them by creating memories—fired my imagination. This is now my 50th professional year, now retired from daily commercial work to explore special photojournalist projects, innovative, layered photo-art methods, and fine art books and publishing. For decades most of my professional awards have come from designing client a After flirting with careers as an archaeologist, pilot, concert pianist, and diplomat, I settled on photographer after just a few month’s residence in Heidelberg, Germany, while studying for my Masters in Comparative Literature. I was captivated with the potential for personal interaction with people of a wide variety of cultural and social environments. Exploring the world of others—and being of lasting, valuable service to them by creating memories—fired my imagination. This is now my 50th professional year, now retired from daily commercial work to explore special photojournalist projects, innovative, layered photo-art methods, and fine art books and publishing. For decades most of my professional awards have come from designing client albums and books; it became a natural outgrowth to center on photographic books for a wider audience. My specialty is hybrid image and text, always as a storyteller.

My new publication is Unplugged Voices: 125 Tales of Art and Life from Northern New Mexico, the Four Corners and the West: an illustrated four-color coffee table 324 page compendium of verbal narratives, each in a 5-minute read. My recent book, Fragments of Spirit: 60 Years: A Photographer’s Recollections of Taos Pueblo, the Region and its Arts, was published January 2021. It recently won two EVVY 1st place gold awards, one for art/photo content and the other for book design. I am a board member and educational chair of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association, and serve as book judge for various publishing associations. In addition to my three university degrees, I hold the degrees of Master Photographic Craftsman from the Professional Photographers of America, Accredited Photographic Instructor, and Educational Associate of the American Society of Photographers. I produce workshops for these, and also the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Denver. As a recent graduate of Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Poetry Collective, I have two new hybrid image and poetic text projects near completion.
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	Elegant Black and White Wedding Photography 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Wow! 6 book awards including a silver Benjamin Franklin from the Independent Book Publishers Assoc, and finalist for Eric Hoffer award and the Colorado Humanities Book Award. Beautifully illustrated collection of mini-memoirs in a very liftable coffe ...more
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