Everything that happens around us is really all one, just viewed from different perspectives. My art is a reflection of what I believe reality to be, that all interactions and events in life have synchronicity and are connected. Composition and the way we see things has a lot to do with the synchronicity of the moment. Working with many designers over the years, I learned that flow, movement and composition of all entities captured in that moment, play an integral part in conveying the synchronicity. My visual capturing career began with motion picture - super 8mm and video tape, culminating with the editing process. In time I realized what ignited my inner fire was not the overall story told by a film of length, but the moment in time caught by a single image. I proceeded to exchange my tools - a super 8mm movie camera for a Nikkormat 35mm and enrolled in photography school in NYC. Upon graduation, I ventured west to San Francisco in 1972 and began my career as a corporate photographer working for International Paper Co. In 1977, I worked for 3 years producing photo training lessons for the US Army. In the eighties and nineties, my focus was large corporate clientele - Bank of America, Pacific Gas & Electric, Chevron, Pacific Bell (to name a few). From 2006 thru 2014 I did location freelance photography for the US Veterans Administration in San Francisco. From 1996 to 2016, I worked for the US Department of Energy as the staff photographer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, traveling the globe to document science projects such as construction of neutrino detectors in Canada and China, carbon sequestration research in the wheat fields of Oklahoma, soil and water genomic research in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, climate change research in the various microclimates of California, scientists studying the breakdown of the permafrost in the Alaskan arctic, and deployment of deep water satellite robotics from oceanographic research vessels in the Pacific Ocean to study microbiotic, iron content and climate change in regard to the warming of the oceans.
My photographic tools have varied over the years, depending on the project at hand - 35mm film format: Nikon Nikkormat, FM, FE, F2, F3, and F4 cameras. Medium format: Fujifilm G6X17, Linhof 6X12, Mamiya 6MF, RZ67 and Hasselblad 500CM system - Large format: Sinar X 4X5 and 8X10, Toyo field 45A II. Digital cameras: Kodak 460 (1st DSLR camera 1997, 6MP - $25K body) and Kodak 560, Canon 1Ds and 5D Mark II, Nikon D3s, D700, D750, D800E, D810, Df, Z6, Z7 - Leica M8, M9, M240, M262, M10, SL, Q and CL with Leica, Zeiss and Voigtlander M mount lenses - Fujifilm X-T1, X-T2, X-T3, X-T4, X-Pro1, X-Pro2, X-Pro3, X100S, X100F, X-E2s and X-H1 cameras.
My gear today is a Fuji XPro 3 camera using Fuji, Voigtlander and Zeiss prime lenses for street and travel photography.
Currently semi-retired and now residing on the Gulf Coast of Florida when Iām not traveling.
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