My Story

I am a retired lawyer now pursuing a passion for wildlife and nature photography. Although I have been fascinated by the natural world almost from the time I first learned to walk, my interest in photography did not develop until decades later.  As with many wildlife photographers, a journey to Africa spurred a yearning to depict and memorialize the unforgettable moments of a safari that I had billed to my family as “the trip of a lifetime.” 

Nine safaris later, I’m still whittling away at an increasingly long and growing list of African wildlife aspirations.  In between those pursuits, I’ve had the opportunity to travel to some of the other iconic wildlife destinations in the world: the Pantanal in Brazil for jaguars; the Svalbard archipelago in the high Arctic for polar bears; the lowland rainforests and cloud forests of Central and South America for elusive jungle creatures and some of the most mesmerizing birdlife on the planet.

Closer to home (Dallas, Texas, USA), my objectives have gone in the other direction.  Legions of photographers already have covered the most famous wildernesses in the United States, such as the Tetons and Yellowstone National Park, the towering redwoods of California, the rocky coasts and tidepools of Maine, and just about all of Alaska.  Instead, due to a combination of geography and pragmatism, I have elected to concentrate on less-appreciated areas: the prairies of the Great Plains and Midwest states; the bottomlands and swampy sloughs of the South; and the harsh semi-tropical thornscrub and brushlands of south Texas.  There is a dazzling amount of biodiversity in these undervalued environments that deserves to be preserved and protected just as fervently as the more majestic and sweeping landscapes of our country.

My photographs are arranged in collections, organized by location, region, or ecosystem rather than by taxonomy.  I invite you to join me in sampling just a small fraction of the tremendous beauty of our miraculous planet.  Whether an image is of a legendary bull elephant striding across the savanna below the shrinking ice cap of Mount Kilimanjaro or of a lowly brown skipper butterfly obscured by the waving tall grasses of an American prairie, each creature depicted here is part of an indelible, interconnected chain of life that, once broken, can never fully be repaired or regained.

Technical Notes

All of my photographs were taken by me and are of free and wild subjects. I do not bait or use calls to lure in mammals or birds.  I also do not employ feeder set-ups (although, for purposes of full disclosure, two photographs of hummingbirds in the “Neotropic” section were taken at a lodge in Costa Rica that had suspended several nectar feeders in their gardens to attract the birds).  I adhere to the ethics codes of the North American Nature Photographers Association and the Audubon Society in pursuing my images.  I make every effort to maintain enough distance from my subjects so that I do not negatively impact their natural behavior.

The primary software I use to process my photos is Adobe Camera RAW.  All finished photographs are true representations of scenes as my eyes perceived them.

All major camera manufacturers produce professional-grade equipment. I shoot with Nikon cameras and lenses simply because that’s the brand I started out with, and I like Nikon’s ergonomics, menu layouts, and its current line-up of lenses for wildlife photographers.