well, it's a long story and i'm good at telling long stories.  if you've visited me here you'd know that.

anyway, i come from a family of photographers.  my great grandfather in the late 1800s photographed the 'taming of the wild west' in the US.  my grandfather was a journalist and newspaper editor and photographer in wichita, kansas until the 1950s or so.  he did a lot of crime stuff, prohibition gangland photos and a lot of normal stuff, too.  portraits.  he was a master of studio lighting, taught me so much about light and how to use shadows to create the form of a subject. never go to a photographer who uses more than one light on a subject.

 my dad did a lot of portraiture and architectural work as well as military recon aerial stuff.  pretty dry.

my brother writes books on technical processes in photography and is an authority on night phtography and exposures using both film and digital media.

 me. i love light, love studio shooting, specialise now in narrative compositions and art gallery exhibition work, art photography book stuff.  i shoot anything from glamour, magazine covers, promotional and portrait, all a bit off-beat and non-mainstream.  i prefer not to do mainstream but i have to on occasion.  but in my nearly 50 years of handling a camera i've never shot a wedding and never will.  monkey work.

i use a lot of pre-processing technique so i avoid photoshop as much as possible.  most of the texture work you'll see on the exhibition work is done in camera and not in photoshop.  the hard way.  i like a challenge.  photoshop will eat you alive and destroy your mind.  but one can make interesting stuff with photoshop.  i do use it for some things, like the glam and magazine promotional work.

 and i do a bit of digital video doco work but that market's about dried up in this economy.

so i concentrate on my art photography.  it should be said, if you venture into my website you'll quickly discover my forte` is the nude.  nudes in narrative.  so be warned my website for photography contains pretty much nothing but nude work.  it won't send you reeling, though.  art nudes in a very different vein.

so, well, there's more but i won't go on.  because i can.

enjoy the wander.

oh, what i was going to say was, my family wanted me to go into photography and i didn't want to do the family business, so to speak.  so i went to art school and studied sculpture and visual arts. but i quickly learned i could also get my degree in photography as well as sculpture.  so i did a double degree.  i've been working in both fields since the 60s. they do overlap, interestingly.