I take a great deal of strength and pleasure from “being out in nature” and traveling the world to learn about different places and people. I am in awe of the wonderful beauty in our world and the incredible behaviors of the animals I encounter. My camera is the tool I use to capture the moments I experience and bring them back for others to enjoy. I hope that I have been successful and brought you a little something to enhance your life.
I do landscape and nature photography to express my deep passion for the beauty of our planet. I do travel photography to bring far away places and people to others. I do sports photography to capture those once-in-a-lifetime moments that happen to and between athletes. I use my camera as a tool to freeze a moment in time to be enjoyed over and over again.
My watercolors are about light, color and ideas. Surreal and real images both interest me…each has its place in expressing an idea or a feeling about a time or place, often going beyond where a photograph can go.
My career as an artist included being a graphic designer (I am now semi-retired) and a watercolorist. I studied art at Pratt Institute in New York City and founded my design studio in California in 1987. I took up photography in earnest about 12 years ago and have been enjoying the journey of learning about photography and traveling to many places to shoot. I am an award-winning watercolorist, photographer, and graphic designer. My work has been and is collected by individuals all over the country.
Selected Awards and Exhibits (Photography)
2024
• Art Fluent Gallery “This Land”
Best in Show
• Nat Photo Society “Unleashed” Runner-Up Award and 3 Honorable Mentions
• Gallery 4 Percent “Scenes and Places”
Distinction Award
• Photo Artfolio “Colorscapes”
• Exhibizone “Emptiness 2024”
2023
• 2023 Nature Conservancy 2023 Global Photo Contest
Finalist
• San Francisco Women Artists “Close Up”
• Taravarna Gallery 4th Water Competition
Honorable Mention
• Las Laguna Art Gallery “50 and Older Show 2023”
• All About Amateurs Gallery “It’s A Jungle Out There”
2022
• National Wildlife Federation 2022 Photo Contest
Honorable Mention
• Audubon Photography Awards 2022
Baby Birds Gallery
2022 (cont.)
• 2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards
Semifinalist
• The Nature Conservancy’s 2022 Global Photo Contest
Finalist x2
• Red Bluff Gallery “Flora Fauna”
• 2022 Triton Museum Salon
• Gallery at the Lake “Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Birds”
Honorable Mention
• Temple Isaiah “Journey”
• Temple Isaiah “Celebrating the Sacred”
•Temple Isaiah “Illumination”
2021
• 2021 Triton Museum Salon
• 16th Annual International Pollux
Awards – Barcelona, Spain
1st – Nature
Honorable Mention x 2 – Nature
•Prairie Village Arts Council’s Fourth Annual Art of Photography
2017
• 2017 Triton Museum Salon
3rd – Photography
Honorable Mention – Photography
2015
• 54th Spring Fine Art Show, Campos, CA
Honorable Mention
2014
• 2014 Triton Museum of Art Annual Photography Competition and Exhibition
• Blackhawk Gallery Summer Splash
Best in Photography
2013
• 2013 Triton Museum of Art Annual Photography Competition and Exhibition
• Danville ADAS Primavera
1st Overall
2012
• 2012 Triton Museum of Art Annual Photography Competition and Exhibition