Bio
| In 1998, after nearly 20 years as a successful reporter, editor and news director in commercial and public radio, I did the sensible thing. I quit. After taking a couple of week-long photography workshops in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks, I knew "bone deep" that I needed to be a photographer of the natural landscape. As full-time as possible I wanted to experience, photograph and share what I found beautiful and compelling in the natural world. A hobby became a calling. The career transition began in the mid-90s. When I wasn't working at NBC Radio or NPR in Washington, DC, I was teaching myself large format photography. I camped and hiked alone throughout Shenandoah National Park and photographed the park's waterfalls. It was a way to learn the park and to get comfortable with my view camera (a Toyo 45AII). I worked as a photographer's assistant with DC-area photographers to learn the business and pay the bills. My work was exhibited at Washington, DC-area venues including the Washington Center for Photography and the Ralls Collection. Shortly after I moved back to my boyhood home in Whitney Point, NewYork, Shenandoah Waterfalls premiered as a solo exhibition in 2004 at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts in Binghamton, NY. Several shows have followed including another major solo exhibition, Transcendence: Photographing the Unseen at the Orazio Salati Gallery in Binghamton in 2008. My prints are in a growing number of private and institutional collections from Florida to New York. I was recently selected for an international juried show - Abstract Expressions - at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. And I am a B&W Magazine Portfolio Contest 2012 Merit Award Winner. A two-page spread of my work appears in the B&W Special Issue, coming to newstands on May 29. If you are interested in learning more about my fine art prints, click here. Some of my work is becoming more personal, experimental, interpretive and mysterious. I seem to be following the advice I so frequently give my students: Be open. Be receptive to the beautiful and the compelling wherever you find it. I am an adjunct instructor in photography at Broome Community College. I also conduct independent workshops for groups and individuals and I accept commissions. I live in Whitney Point with my wife Sharon Ball and our cat, Bizarre. |
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