I am a fine art photographer based in Hyannis, MA. I like to say have been taking photographs for fifty, but taking it seriously for twelve, years. I have a B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. in English and taught writing at the college level for over 40 years, retiring in May, 2014 to devote myself full-time to my photography. In 2015 I became a juried member of the Cape Cod Art Association and achieved the rank of Master Photographer by the Cape Cod Camera Club. I have had solo exhibitions in Nashua, Hudson, and Derry, New Hampshire; and Hyannis, MA. My photographs have been selected to appear in exhibitions in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Rhode Island.
My great love—what attracts me to all great art—is photographs that pop. I love the way, especially in the chiaroscuro pictures of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, a strong light source illuminates a part of the picture and makes that pop out of surrounding semi-darkness. I feel my creations are only fully realized in the digital darkroom, using Lightroom and Photoshop to discover and refine my photographic vision, to help bring out my initial vision (if I have one, which I often don’t) for a photograph. More often, in Photoshop I discover serendipitously something in a photograph I didn't even know was there. I think of Robert Frost and his line about discovering “something I didn’t know I knew.”
Recently, I am finding that, following the work of one of my favorite photographers, Parisian night photographer Brassaï, urban night photography allows me to express my vision. Most large urban areas are visually alive, but I have found Boston at night to be especially exciting. The bright lights pop out of the darkness, and near water and bridges the light reflects everywhere. The downtown, the business district, the Common and Public Garden, and especially the Zakim Bridge--all these startle with concentrated light and the deep mystery of the dark.