I've had an interesting and eclectic career with a motion picture camera shooting everything from artist Ed Ruscha's two films, to the Academy Award winning documentary "Number Our Days." I've shot films in the Bolivian Andes and the mountains of Ararat. I've done commercials on the streets on Rome, New York, Mexico City, Chicago, Los Angeles and more. The list of places I've been as a Director of Photography are too numerous to list. From my documentary work I learned to shoot fast and pay attention. Things that happen in real time usually just happen once. From my work as a commercial cinematographer I learned the beauty of light and the skills it takes to do things in an artful manner.

I shoot a still camera now, not to sell a product, or document an event or place, but to create a stand-alone piece of art, an image of beauty that inspires, elucidates and informs. One of my favorite places to do that is in big cities. What places! When I worked as a cinematographer they simply served as locations, settings or backdrops. Now I see the cities themselves come alive, the light, the shapes, the reflections. I look with amazement and new appreciation at all the things man has created for himself in the city and I try to capture those things. I try to shoot fast. I try to capture the light and beauty of it all. I try to see in an artful way.

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