I was born at Beaver, Utah and grew up in Northern California. I studied general education and art at North Sacramento Junior College, then art and photography at The University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Utah State University. For over 65 years I have been dedicated to an on-going experimentation with Impressionist photography as I have been involved with audio-visual productions, stage plays, art exhibits and magazine and book publications. When I attended Brigham Young University I was the Photo Editor for the Banyan, BYU’s yearbook, and this prompted me to use Photography as a profession, but I still preferred to apply an Impressionistic approach to most of my work.

My mother always hoped that I would be an artist, and she encouraged any indication of artistic talent that I demonstrated. After a few misguided years of various and sundry jobs, I finally enrolled in some collage art classes. But it wasn't until I was over 30years old that art and photography began to make some sense to me and became the center of my life.  And that happened because my mother encouraging me to submit a photograph of an Amsterdam canal to a national newspaper awards competition. Surprisingly, I won locally and nationally. So with more encouragement from my mother and others I decided to enroll in photography classes at the University of Utah.

  I soon found that I must have had some inherent talent in photography, as I began winning awards and holding one-man exhibits. During the early years, most of my exhibits were in B&W photography, because color of those days always seemed to look artificial.  I wrote and illustrated a book on available light photography, "The Amphoto Guide to Available Light Photography". During these years some of my photographs were featured in Camera 35 and "Modern Photography" magazines. Later I was published in several international L.D.S. magazines. Then a spectacular form of audio-visual presentation,  called Multi-Image, started to become popular, and I became a Multi-Image producer. Some Multi-Image clients included President Ronald Reagan, Utah's Govenor Bangerter, John Denver and the L.D.S. Church Sesquicentennial production of "Zion" presented in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. 

  It wasn’t until the advent of digital computer technology that the full possibilities for impressionistic photography became available for me.  I have discovered that digital techniques can alter the colors and structure of images to match my perceptions -- almost like a painter. I say almost, because I feel that digital-art photography is a form and style of art all by itself and should not be directly  compared to painting or any other art genre. There is an inherent sense of reality in a photograph, no matter how it is changed or how it distorted from the original image, and when the impressions of the heart are added, something more than a realistic image emerges.

 As I continue to look for new images and new techniques to express my feelings about life and the world as I see it with my heart, I am always experimenting with techniques, sometimes keeping to a literal interpretation of the image, and at other times completely altering the form and design. But always there is the desire to communicate the emotions and meaning of the subjects I "photograph." 

(You can read more about my philosophy of photography in the Philosophy page.)