Years of Creative Excellency

This is my 50th year in photography and video. My first job in NYC was

at Carnegie Hall working as an assistant to Peter Vaeth, a fellow Rochester Institute of Photography major. Our degrees are in “Photographic Illustration”. The 70s in New York were quite exciting in the publishing world

I started out freelancing, creating photographs for book covers for Ballantine books, Avon books, Penguin books, Random House, and others. Editors would give me manuscripts to read and I would come up with photographs for the covers. There was lots of freedom. It was invigorating. My loft/studio which I built was at 17th street and 5th avenue. At the time, New York was in financial straits, and President Ford remarked “Drop Dead New York”. I on the other hand saw the city as a wonderland for creativity, especially for someone from Virginia, and right out of college.

I started working for advertising agencies, institutions, and publishers.

My modes of transportation were bicycling, mopeding and roller skating through the streets of New York. I easily rolled my moped into the elevator of my loft and kept it parked there.

And now I am in the Hudson Valley following in the footsteps of the Hudson River Painters who moved from the 10th street art studios in Manhattan up to the Catskills for fresh air and landscape.

In the Hudson Valley, I work with Educational Institutions, Land Conservancy groups, Artists, Musicians, Health care institutions, and I still do work in NYC. My work has grown into web videos, testimonial videos,

music/video capture, documentaries, website photos, and drone video.

Along the way of the many kinds of visual imagery I do, I am always trying to push the envelope in photography/video/drone capture. I’m a searcher of light. And the engine that helps drive my search are all the photography and video that is needed by others. so, In a sense, I am in service to others.