I love being outdoors and the beauty of God's creation is very special to me. Most of my opportunities for nature photography have been in the Adirondacks but brief trips to other parts of the U.S. including Alaska and the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks have been taken and more are planned. I am very excited about an upcoming trip to Yosemite and the Big Sur where I hope to add greatly to my collection of landscape and scenic photos.

My first career was at Eastman Kodak but my interest in photography really blossomed in semi-retirement when I had more time to pursue it. I began with sunset pictures taken at our second home which is located at Lake Ozonia in the northwest corner of the Adirondacks Soon I was photographing the loons on the lake and the deer along the shoreline. Nesting osprey provided additional opportunities and as I invested in better photographic equipment, my capability extended to smaller creatures including ducks, mink and songbirds. Loons remain my favorite creature to photograph but foxes, coyotes, and bears have made their way up my personal favorite ladder recently. Then there are warblers, bluebirds, cardinals, cedar waxwings, and the list goes on and on!

Scenic or landscape photography has become more prominent in my thinking, especially as I was able to spend some time in Yellowstone and the Tetons and, more recently, Yosemite and the Big Sur! Mountains have a special grandeur on their own besides providing a great habitat for some of the wildlife that I never saw growing up as a "flatlander" in Iowa! And while I saw a lot of the Pacific during my years in the Navy, it was a thrill to be able to spend several days photographing the beauty of the Big Sur.

All of my loon photographs and many other wildlife and scenic photos have been captured from my kayak and all are taken with a digital camera. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoy experiencing and capturing nature's beauty.