BACKGROUND
Background
I have spent most of my professional career working as a photographer, an educator, and an environmental scientist. My passion for photography began with the discovery of an Argus C3 35mm rangefinder camera in my grandparents attic during my junior year of high school. From the days of that old Argus, countless other cameras have passed through my hands. Along the way I earned degrees in environmental science and education. I also took numerous photography workshops including the prestigious Santa Fe, Maine Photography, and Ansel Adams Workshops.
Since making the transition to digital in the 1990's, I have enjoyed teaching digital photography classes on a regular basis. I have taught photography at a fine arts high school; a 5-week digital photography class for Boise State University's Upward Bound Program and, more recently, Smartphone Photography for the Osher Institute for Lifelong Learners.
I am also a Certified Master Naturalist and recently published a book entitled An Abridged Natural History of the Bethine Church River Trail.
Publications
My photographs have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Outside Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Sunset Magazine, Men's Journal and many other regional and local publications.
In 2017, I teamed up with poet Susan Lowman-Thomas to publish a book featuring a collection of my photographs paired with poems created specifically by Lowman-Thomas for each of the selected images. The title of the limited-edition book is Listen - Dispatches from Nature.
My most recent book is entitled An Abridged Natural History of the Bethine Church River Trail. The book features a Foreword by Monica Church, the granddaughter of Bethine Church.
Awards and Recognition
Invited by Creative West / CaFE to exhibit Mysterious Hot Pool Below Milky Way in Space is Weird, So Are We exhibition.
Chalk Basin Sunrise appears on the cover of the Oregon Hight Desert Association 2026 Wild Desert Calendar.
First place in the Mountain Environment category in the 2006 International Banff Mountain Photography Competition sponsored by National Geographic.
One of a small group of artists selected to exhibit their work in the Boise Art Museum's Triennial Exhibition.
