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I started photographing the natural world in 1997.  As soon as I started seriously photographing and studying photography, I became captivated by this medium.

The photos you see here are, more or less, nature photos with a small "n". There are no grizzlies pulling salmon out of water, no cheetah’s bearing down on gazelle, no eagles skimming the water for fish. It would be fun to go out and try to take such pictures – but ultimately, for me, it would just be a technical exercise. I don’t know any animals like these, and they don’t know me. For me, it would be like photographing a stranger’s birthday party - interesting, challenging, and certainly fulfilling in a way, but not drawing on a deeper sense of connection.

I shoot the nature that I know and that knows me. I shoot the strands of the web to which I’m most closely linked. I shoot the jays who come when I call and who in turn call to me. I shoot the insects, the rodents, the deer who live close, the common waterfowl of the area. And I do this in the hopes of engendering a sense of connection between the viewer and the natural world, in hopes of sparking an understanding that nature is not some distant place, far away, visited infrequently, but rather is right at your door step, right underfoot even on a concrete sidewalk.

I terms of the particulars of my existence - I was born in Adrian, Michigan. I've done a variety of things professionally over the years, including working in a natural history museum, as an executive in a regional bank holding company,  an assistant superintendent in an urban public school district, working in the non-profit arena.  I'm married to a wonderful woman, live in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and today devote my time to photographic activities.