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It was in the late 1960's that I first explored the world of photography from the living room table of my childhood home. Into my adolescent realm came magazines such as Time and Life, which brought to me the vivid realities of the Vietnam War, the Apollo moon-landing missions, the Woodstock rock festival, and the face of Charles Manson. These images were highly impactful to my young mind and served to shape my future. When my mother gave me a box camera and black and white film in the mid-70's I found the perfect excuse for roaming the backroads and the foothill woodlands in my rural neighborhood of northern California. I photographed my dogs, my horses, the oak trees that forested my favorite haunts, and whatever else in nature that caught my attention. After graduating from high school I shot with a Nikon FM and motor drive, and I took this camera overseas with me on my bike trip through the UK and Ireland, later on a backpacking trip through the hilly dry tropical forests of Guatemala, and while living the island life off the coast of Honduras. I began photographing underwater using a compact digital point-and-shoot, and my first images were of tidepools and aquaria on the outer coast of Southeaset Alaska, California, and Peru. In 2011 I made the leap to professional equipment shooting with a Nikon D3100, Ikelite housing and two DS160 strobes, and later with a Sony mirrorless a5000 in a Fantasea housing with two Kraken hydra 2500 video/strobe lights. Much of my photography is accomplished while freediving; the natural light brings out a tactile, luminescent beauty in my subjects that leaves the viewer with a sense that they can reach into the image and touch them. I am a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen in the UK, and my research deals with the impacts of climate change on intertidal communities in Alaska and Peru. All of the images on this site can be made available as high resolution downloads for purchase. This is a work in progress, please explore my site and enjoy!
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