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I started photography in my teens working until I fully
“had my style” at nearly 40. My background is wildly
varied including human services, a stint in politics and
decades in policy development. I founded a
consultancy in policy development, management
L o c a l consulting and database development shortly after
college. Everything centered around my problem
c r a f t solving nature. So does my photography. I see art as an
act of creation, a problem to be solved.
b e e r I developed my style while traveling for business,
j u s t shooting my primary subject, buildings. Ultimately, I
realized that I could shoot performers, portraits,
f o o t flowers, anything, as architecture. I then started

s t e p s showing my work seriously.
My photos concentrate on the interplay of angles,
a w a y shapes and light. I compose intending to confound
viewers’ normal perspective. I play with perceptual
tendencies so viewers try to force images into a more
usual perceptual framework. My photos are often
f o r h o u r s a n d e v e n t abstractions making subjects hard to recognize.
i n f o r m a t i o n v i s i t Viewers, offered a new perspective, hopefully, engage
s e c o n d w i n d b r e w i n g . c o m
the images seeing them in new ways. My work is
visually interesting and perceptually difficult.
I compose in-camera, rarely crop, nor modify what the
camera actually captured. No digital or other
manipulation is involved. I produce C-prints, not digital
prints.

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