“I am the adventurer on a road to discovery, ready to receive fresh impressions...” --Edward Weston’s Daybooks

I’ve been taking photographs since I was fifteen years old.

A U.S. Army Signal Corp photographer in Korea and Japan (1954-55), I have two photographs in the U.S. Library of Congress collection, one cover on Newsday’s former rotogravure Sunday magazine, and credits in other newspapers, magazines, booklets and ads, as well as several minor exhibitions.

A member of the Huntington Camera Club (Long Island, NY) for 30 years and past president for two years, Four-time winner of that club's slide-of-the-year and two-time winner of picture-of-the-year awards and first place in 1993 and 1995 masters color slides competitions.

I am basically self-taught, studied photography briefly with Harper’s Bazaar art director, Alexy Brodovich, and too late in my life, with Helen Manzer who, in four years, taught me more about what makes a good photograph, then I learned in a lifetime.

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Although no one asked Rembrandt or Monet what kind of brushes they used, people inevitably ask photographers, “What kind of camera do you use?” My first was my father’s Kodak 1A folding camera that took eight pictures on a 116 roll, and then an Ansco Pioneer box camera of my very own. A Ciroflex was my first “real” camera, followed by a rangefinder Canon that I purchased in a PX in Korea. I also used or owned several Speed Graphics, a Bosley, Petri, Rollie, Minoltacord, Olympus, various Canon and Nikon SLRs and currently use a digital camera; having sold off all my Nikon bodies except for one F3 which hasn’t seen any use for a year now. If I learned anything from all this equipment, it is that a brand name is no more important than the brand of hammer you use. If it hits the nail on the head; it works.

I now shoot digital and print my photographs on a Canon S9000 inkjet printer. My software is Photoshop. My hardware includes a Macintosh computer, and slide and flatbed scanners.