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I’ve been seriously
interested in photography since getting my first single-lens reflex
camera as a teenager in the 1960s. Following
a 30 year career in electronics engineering, I have resumed a dedicated
intense interest in photography again.
My focus is mainly concentrated in three areas; botanical
studies, river related nature photography, and portraits of jazz
musicians in performance.
I have recently become a
jurored member of the New Hampshire Art Association. My work is on
display at the NHAA gallery in Portsmouth, at the Bagelry in Durham, The
Blue Moon health food store in Exeter and the gift shop at Fuller
Gardens.
Beginning in 2001, I
have spent extensive time photographing the
Fuller
Gardens
in
North Hampton
,
NH
. My photographs appear on
their website and their gift shop sells a selection of my prints and
notecards of these flower images. The
floral paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe have certainly been an
inspiration for some of my close-up work.
I have also extensively
photographed several other gardens and arboretums including Prescott
Park in Portsmouth, NH and Maudsley State Park in Newburyport, MA.
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 I
am a lifelong steward of the
Lamprey
River
which runs through my back yard, and I have been active in conservation
efforts that have resulted in its designation as a national
Wild & Scenic
River
under the auspices of the National Park Service.
I am fascinated by capturing the texture of moving water and have
been experimenting for several years with different ways of representing
the subtle beauty of reflection and refraction of water in all seasons,
and the interactions of water and ice in the winter.
My third major interest
comes out of my love of jazz and the musicians who create it.
Jazz
 musicians
have a deep emotional connection with their music.
Nowhere is this more evident than in live unrehearsed musical
performance in the intimacy of a small nightclub setting, where musical
creativity is inspired and energized by the complex evolving
interactions that develop between the musicians, enhanced by their close
relationship with the audience. For
the last four years I have been working to capture this emotion and
energy in black and white ambient-light photographs of these musicians
in live performance, in large part at the Press Room on
Daniel St.
in
Portsmouth
. My work has received
acclaim from many of the musicians that I have photographed and appears
on several web sites and CD albums.
I presented selections of this portfolio in a talk titled “In
the Moment – Capturing Live Jazz Performance” on April 19th
of this year at the Exeter Library at the request of the Seacoast Jazz
Society as part of their 2005 lecture series.
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