About

“Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.” ​

—Albert Einstein

The joy I experience with photography mostly happens at the time of capture and in a cocoon of time around it. I take photos while wandering around interesting places. You see what is present; you wonder about it.

Later on, I have photos to share but they matter less than the time and place of my pressing the shutter release. (Vivian Maier didn’t even care to develop all her exposed film.)

I used to carry a Sony kit with multiple lenses but I don’t do that anymore. Too much stuff and too much temptation to use it. Now I carry a compact rangefinder with a fixed lens. Everything simplified.

For many years, I rode a motorcycle around the western United States. Up and down the Pacific coastline. All over California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. Multiple trips to the northwest. An ideal day was riding remote roads, sometimes with my friend Bill and sometimes by myself, staying in small towns. Often lodged in mom and pop motels with my BMW dual sport bike right outside the door. When with Bill, the standard fare for dinner was fried chicken.

Especially when riding by myself, after arriving in a town for the night, I’d walk around looking at impressive stuff, some of which I photographed. Alas, I am not riding any longer. (This pleases my kids.) Fortunately, other travel provides for similar experiences. I am still stumbling across things I want to shoot.

Originally from Nebraska, I live now in Sedona, Arizona, which is a great base from which to explore all manner of natural and human things. At home I like to cook and garden. I do a bit of volunteer work—some of which requires serious thinking. Family and friends matter most of all.

In all of this is photography, which is delightful.