About the Photographer

Occasionally, when simple elements in nature combine to create scenes of striking beauty, it is my good fortune to capture them. I love looking for combinations of shape and color, location and light, water and wind. When I get really lucky, at the right moment, in the right place, a subject makes the transition from reality to abstraction, and the results can become breath-taking.

I am humbled by occasional comparisions of my photos with the work of well known, traditional artists (Joseph Raffael, Charles de Muth).

--Two-week artistic fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Arts, 2011
--Adjunct faculty, Edison State College, 2004 - 2010
--Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, Computer Information Systems, 2003
--Adjunct faculty, Hodges University, 1999-2003
--MS, US Naval Postgraduate School, Physics, 1961
--BEE, Cornell University, 1954

Atlanta's Orchids. ISBN 97832816-5-8 (2015)
Ave Maria: Images of a Work in Progress. ISBN 978-0-6154092-4-5 (2010)
Ave Maria: Portraits of a Work in Progress. ISBN 978-0-9832816-0-3 (2011)
Florida's Orchids (in preparation, ETA Spring, 2016)
Georgia's Orchids (in preparation, ETA Spring, 2016)

Bold Spontaneity...Expressive Power, Naples Art Association (NAA) Members' Gallery, March, 2008
Viewers' Choice, NAA Members' Gallery, February, 2008
First Prize, color, Livermore (CA) Art Association, 1971

Shows

(Juried)

2010 Oct 1 - Nov 7 - "Shadows", Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Sautee, GA, US
2010 Oct 8 - Nov 9 - "Painting with Light" at Dawson County Arts Council/Bowen Center for the Arts, Dawsonville, GA, US. Juried by Mark Gilliland.
2010 Feb 4 - March 14 - Atlanta Botanical Garden, Orchid Daze, Atlanta, GA, US
2009 Dec 9 - Feb 1, 2010, One-man show, conference center, Edison State College, Naples, FL, US
2009 Oct 31 - Dec 2, 48^th Founders juried exhibition, von Liebig Arts Center, Naples Art Assn, FL, US. Juried by Daniel Stetson.
2009 Oct 3 - Nov 11, "Relics" at Dawson County Arts Council/Bowen Center for the Arts, Dawsonville, GA, US. Juried by David Akoubian.
2009 Sep 24 - Nov 3, Inside Out Sautee "the Man Show", Sautee, GA, US
2009 Sep 26 - Nov 2, Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Sautee, GA, US
2009 July 1-30, One-man show at McCormick & Schmick, North Naples, FL, US
2008 Oct 2 - Nov 1, A Flash in Time, Dawson County Arts Council/Bowen Center for the Arts, Dawsonville, GA, US. Juried by Paul Dunlap.
2008 Oct 1 - Nov 23, Love vs. Fear, Kryder Gallery, Dahlonega, GA, US. Juried by Hank Margeson.
2008 June-Feb 2009, Art in Flight, Southwest Florida International Airport, FL, US
2008 Mar 2 - April 3, Members' Gallery, NAA von Liebig Arts Center, Naples, FL, US. ss: Bold spontaneity; strength of expression. Juried by Naples Art Association.
2008 Feb 5 - May 3, UAC Photography Annual, Rookery Bay Center, Naples, FL, US. Juried by Clyde Butcher
2008 Jan 26 - Feb 24, Members' Gallery, NAA von Liebig Arts Center, Naples, FL, US. Award: Viewers' Choice. Juried by Naples Art Association.
2007-8 Winter Bowen Arts Center, Dawsonville, GA, US
2007 Fall Buisson Arts Center, Dahlonega, GA, US
2007 Fall Bowen Arts Center, Dawsonville, GA, US
2007 Fall Dahlonega Arts Council, Dahlonega, GA, US
2007 Summer Dahlonega Arts Council, Dahlonega, GA, US

Higher Ed.
Images in permanent collections

Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL
Berry College, Rome, GA
Edison State College, Naples, FL
North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, GA

Started making photos as a teenager, serving as photographic editor of high school yearbook.

Have never been without a camera, acquiring an extensive collection while in a career in the US Navy, of family and friends, and of many years sailing and traveling.

Bay Sailor (cover photo). Eastern Shore, MD: October, 1988.

Brown, P. M., ed., North American Native Orchid Journal, 13 (1), June, 2007, p. 4. Contact. ISSN 1084-7332.

Cane, J., A Voyage into the Past. Tidewater Times, Eastern Shore, MD, February, 1988, pp. 153, 165.

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, From a Lighthouse Window. Easton, MD: Waverly Press, 1989, pp. 106-108, 112.

Dodds, R. & Lesher, P., A Heritage in Wood: The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's Small Craft Collection. St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1992, pp. 74, 119.

Hanks, D., Downes Curtis, Sailmaker. The Weather Gauge, XXXIII (2), Fall 1997. St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, pp. 20, 21.

The Military Engineer, 98 (644), November-December, 2006, p. 12. Alexandria, VA: Society of American Military Engineers.

Tobias, T., The Sail Loft. The Star Democrat. Easton, MD: Chesapeake Publishing Corp., 13 June, 2001, p. 1c.

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