I am an artist who uses photography to express my vision of how I see the world around me.
Most of the work I do would be considered landscape photography — the sunrises and sunsets, the lakes, streams, waterfalls, woods, skies and stars in Minnesota where I live, or the boulders and rock formations of Joshua Tree where we go each year.
I do not seek to make a faithful representation of what I see — instead my goal is to create a print based on the original scene augmented by my thoughts, feelings and experiences. To quote Ansel Adams from his book The Print, “The final image you achieve will reveal what you saw and felt.”
Finally, I do not consider a work complete until the image has been transferred to paper where it becomes a tactile thing that can be touched and held up to the light — a physical manifestation of what I envisioned when I snapped the shutter.