Your Bio

In the summer of 2003 I escaped the Sacramento Valley for the Sierra Nevada foothill communities of Grass Valley, then to Nevada City. These neighboring Mother Lode towns are steeped in the gold mining history of California, stimulating my return to serious (though mostly unpaid) photography.

A thriving music scene drew me into concert photography - very different from anything I had tried before. Not only do I get to enjoy the music as much as anyone, I have the most wonderful visual experience.

I seem to be visually drawn to details. Macrophotography of local flora and fauna is an obvious example, but closeups of architectural details rather than entire Mother Lode buildings, and of faces in candid and posed portraits, extend the theme.

Equipment is the least important aspect of photographic art, but my conversion from film to digital photography when I moved in 2003 freed me to experiment, without constraint by the cost of film. With two Olympus cameras (E-1 and E-510) and several superb Oly lenses, I keep learning from the 20,000 photos I shoot every year. The cameras fit my way of thinking and seeing.

My Smugmug galleries have grown over the years, spilling way beyond their original organization. I'll slowly recategorize and rearrange them to make browsing more sensible, but don't hold your breath...

Gallery Categories

Performances

60 galleries with 2954 photos

Updated: Jun 28, 2009 10:34pm PST

Other

16 galleries with 423 photos

Updated: Jun 27, 2009 6:57pm PST

Travel

28 galleries with 1072 photos

Updated: Jun 27, 2009 6:11pm PST

Briar Patch Co-op Natural Foods

33 galleries with 1448 photos

Updated: Jun 19, 2009 9:30pm PST

Photography

53 galleries with 1442 photos

Updated: May 31, 2009 9:37am PST

Family

5 galleries with 39 photos

Updated: May 18, 2009 11:47pm PST

Macrophotography & closeups

34 galleries with 798 photos

Updated: Apr 11, 2009 7:09pm PST

The Mother Lode

15 galleries with 331 photos

Updated: Apr 05, 2009 10:41pm PST

Nevada City Cohousing

102 galleries with 3865 photos

Updated: Mar 09, 2009 12:55pm PST

Nevada City

21 galleries with 662 photos

Updated: Feb 20, 2009 10:52am PST

San Francisco & Bay Area

10 galleries with 431 photos

Updated: Jan 26, 2009 10:08am PST

Friends

12 galleries with 262 photos

Updated: Jan 06, 2009 10:53pm PST

Animals

2 galleries with 35 photos

Updated: Dec 13, 2008 7:46pm PST

Community Events in Nevada City, Grass Valley and vicinity

8 galleries with 427 photos

Updated: Aug 12, 2008 3:43pm PST

The night sky

1 gallery with 2 photos

Updated: Jul 11, 2008 10:38pm PST

Local farms

2 galleries with 81 photos

Updated: Jul 10, 2008 4:27pm PST

Peace and Social Actions

16 galleries with 984 photos

Updated: Oct 31, 2007 11:03pm PST

Political Events

15 galleries with 541 photos

Updated: Sep 25, 2007 5:08pm PST

Riverhill Farm, Nevada City, California

6 galleries with 315 photos

Updated: Nov 16, 2006 12:34pm PST

Portraits

1 gallery with 168 photos

Updated: May 10, 2006 11:29am PST

Whitewater

3 galleries with 94 photos

Updated: Feb 28, 2005 3:38pm PST

The Great Republic of Rough and Ready

2 galleries with 17 photos

Updated: Mar 24, 2004 10:20pm PST

River City Whitewater Club

1 gallery with 16 photos

Updated: Mar 16, 2004 6:33pm PST

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