 My
life long path has been as varied as life has to offer.
My latest line is that my analytical / administrative
“left brain” has turned to mush and that
my creative “right brain” has taken over.
While a product of the 1960’s idealism I took
on the dream of becoming an Industrial Designer and
pursued and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from
Michigan State University. While at Michigan State,
I took some freelance honors courses in photography
from Roger Funk. My passion for photography was restricted
at that time to the 35mm format with the emphasis being
black and white photographs and color transparencies.
I then pursued additional “portfolio” Industrial
Design course work at the Center For Creative Studies,
Detroit, Michigan.
 Not
finding employment in my chosen field I shifted gears
totally and pursued the craze of the 1970’s and
1980’s … the MBA. I received my MBA from
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan after six
and a half years of night school. During this time I
had started work at Michigan Consolidated Gas (MichCon)
with stops in Engineering, Gas Operations Central Staff,
Production, Transmission & Storage, Information
Systems, Distribution Operations and Engineering &
Construction. While part of the Information Systems
organization I was assigned to lead a geographic information
system (GIS) project. Twenty years later with the labor-intensive
GIS conversion project completed it is time to go back
to my creative side.
Under the training and mentorship of well-respected
photographer Monte Nagler (a student of Ansel Adams),
as well as Doug Johnson, Elizabeth Stone, David Middleton
and Tim Cooper from the Rocky Mountain School of Photography,
my passion for photography over the last two years has
been reignited. My primary focus and interest is limited
edition landscape photography. I see so much beauty
in God’s creation that I am never without subject
matter. One might say that I have “stopped to
smell the roses!”
So, with the rekindled passion for photography, a new
direction and vision, and a spirit of adventure I have
changed my life path once again to capture images that
draw a person in and capture one’s heart. |
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