The first time I wandered off alone in nature, I'm guessing I must've been about 8 years old.  By that time I was making my first home made bird feeders.  A baby food jar and some red nail polish make the best little first humming bird feeder ever.  I felt I just had to get close, as close as I could to all the natural beauty around me. About that same time 'Santa' had gifted me my first camera kit, a Kodak X-15. By the time I was fifteen I was quite familiar with a Single Lens Reflex camera. I had won a first place national award for people photography. I put the camera down after high school to run my own business, a retail nature store that I've owned for the last twenty years, and to raise a family.  Now with children grown, and being on my own, I picked up the camera once again. 

When not photographing wildlife, I may be in studio photographing custom motorcycles and their riders, or on the football sidelines of local games. Or occasionally assisting  Sports Illustrated's Peter Read Miller on the NFL sidelines. The action photography of football is also very much my passion.

 I've the good fortune of living in Colorado to be able to get as close to nature as anyone can.  I've lived on the mountain with the animals and I've gone many places to photograph them. I've also worked with many other famous photographers to enhance my trade and bring the best of all I know how to the world.