I am a Mojave Desert native, eventually transplanted into Southern Maryland in 2007. With a background in systems engineering from the University of Arizona and decades working in various rocket propulsion and nuclear propulsion programs, I am stuck in a very left-brain world. Seeking balance, I quite accidentally evolved a passion for photography as a part of my journey, and use that medium and all of the world-travels it fuels in pursuit of myself and some right-brain balance. Each image represents a mile marker on my long journey, and each setting or rising sun a hopeful tribute to the splendor of the natural world we have been gifted with.

My photography, at times, aims to capture sweeping vistas awash in color representative of standing in our most beautiful and reverent places, while never losing my love of the desert’s beauty. Yet other imagery delves into the tiniest of details or colorless structural elements, seeking out inspiration in the minutia as a reminder that true beauty is all around us, no matter how bleak the horizon may seem at any given time. Shadows find themselves amplified in the art, allowing them to be intentional compositional void space to be celebrated, vice forcefully filled in.