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	In 1998, after nearly 20 years in commercial and public radio – as a reporter, editor and news director – at local and national levels, I quit. For too long, my attention had been occupied with worldly issues, disasters, the scandal du jour – momentous on Monday, trivia on Tuesday.
	Sometimes my work was meaningful, even award-winning. But at some point it lost all personal relevance.
	Bone deep, I knew I needed to be a photographer of the natural landscape. As full-time as possible I wanted to explore, experience, photograph and share what I found to be compelling in the natural world. My hobby had become a calling.
	The career transition began in the mid-‘90s, after I moved to the Washington, DC-area with a plan. When I wasn’t working at NBC Radio, I was teaching myself large format photography. I camped and hiked alone in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park. Time and solitude are necessary. My destination was always one of the park’s waterfalls. It was a way to learn the park and how to use my second-hand Toyo 45A-II camera.
	When I left broadcast journalism for good, I worked as a photographer’s assistant to learn the business and pay the bills. I continued my Shenandoah Waterfalls project. My work was accepted for exhibition in several Washington, DC-area venues including the Washington Center for Photography and the Ralls Collection.
	Shortly after moving back to my boyhood home in Whitney Point, NY, the Shenandoah Waterfalls series premiered as my first solo exhibition at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts gallery in Binghamton, NY.
	My photography continues to grow as I explore and re-connect with the mysterious, seductive natural landscape here in the Southern Tier of upstate New York.
	My work is now in a growing number of private and institutional collections from Florida to New York, including the Broome Community College Foundation in Binghamton.
	I teach photography at Broome Community College. I design and conduct my own independent workshops for groups and individuals. My work is part of a continuing exhibition in Gallery II at Orazio Salati Studio and Gallery in Binghamton. And I’m accepting commissions.
	My latest solo exhibition – Transcendence: Photographing the Unseen, New and Reconsidered Work – is at Orazio Salati Gallery I in September and October, 2008.
	Life is good. I live in my boyhood home with my wife, Sharon, our cat, Bizarre, and all our charms and quirks.