I first became interested in photography in my pre-teen years after I sent in product labels for a free Kodak Instamatic. Then I was hooked.
I quickly upgraded cameras to an SLR, shooting nature. In high school I was exposed to photojournalism, which got me interested in telling people’s stories visually. I went on to do this professionally for 36 years, mostly at the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, NY.
My work as a photojournalist has taken me to a wide variety of places, from hospital operating rooms to professional golf tournaments, to lower Manhattan in the hours after the 9/11 attacks, and into the homes of ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell.
Now retired from the newspaper profession, I am back to my first love: shooting nature. Traveling is high on my agenda: I spent four months discovering London and beyond and am now refining my shooting style to mostly black and white.
I chose to display all the images in black and white: I like being able to strip away the colors, which I feel enables the viewer to more easily get to the heart of the image — to not be distracted by the colors we all see in everyday life.
Photography freezes moments in time, forever. The camera alone does not make the picture; I make it, using my eyes, emotions, and heart. Using black and white in the final image captures the mood and emotion of the photograph.