"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."  -  Robert Bresson

This is what artists do, to call our attention to facets and ideas and feelings in the world we would otherwise miss, things experienced with the eyes and the mind and the heart.  Photographers as artists strive to capture an image that tickles our fancy, that stimulates our brain, that stretches our imagination, that pulls on our emotions.  The images we capture should last beyond the present inasmuch as it captures not a passing state of the world, but an idea or feeling, a figment of our own sense of meaning and understanding of reality.  To that end, an image need not faithfully represent the material world, but it should push to the edges of the abstract to express our deepest thoughts and feelings about the world.

Since recently starting my photography avocation, my photographs have received some noteworthy recognition:

2010 -- Selection for the Sacramento Fine Arts Center's Magnum Opus fine arts competition for "Rice Dryer," "Trees in Fog, Spenceville," "First Christian Church, Wheatland," "Crosswalk Detail," and "Blinds #1."

2010 - Selection by jury for the KVIE Art Auction for "Spring Storm, Rural Placer County."
2010 -- Selection for the Sacramento Fine Arts Center's Magnum Opus fine arts competition for "Rice Dryer," "Trees in Fog, Spenceville," "First Christian Church, Wheatland," "Crosswalk Detail," and "Blinds #1.
2010 -- Selection for the California State Fair, and given an Award of Merit, for two photographs, "Bark Study #9" and "First Christian Church, Wheatland."
2010 -- Selection for the Coastal Arts League's Annual juried competition (display book) for "Blinds #4.
2009 -- Selection for Viewpoint's Twelve: The Play of Light exhibit for "Softly Among the Oaks" and "Blinds #1."
2009 -- Selection by jury for the KVIE Art Auction for "Bark Study #9"
2009 -- Selection for the California State Fair, and given an Award of Merit, for "Softly Among the Oaks"
2009 -- Selection for the Sacramento Fine Arts Center's Magnum Opus fine arts competition for "Next Harvest," "Bark Study #10" and "Corn Lily Study #3"
2009 -- Selection for the Placer Arts League's Summer Art Show for "Three Poppies"
2008 -- Selection by jury for the KVIE Art Auction for "Sierra Mélange"
2008 -- Selection for the Placer Arts League's Summer Art Show for "Spenceville Stream" and "Sierra Mélange"
2008 -- Selection for a summer exhibition at the Sacramento Administration Building for "Next Harvest"
2008 -- Selection for the Sacramento Fine Arts Center's Magnum Opus fine arts competition for "Reflections on Crater Lake" and "Softly Among the Oaks" (which also earned an Award of Merit)
2008 -- Selection for the Sacramento Asylum Gallery's National Digital Art and Photography show for "Next Harvest" and "SS. Petri et Pauli"
2008 -- A show of The Spenceville Project photographs at the Sacramento Blue Moon Gallery during the month of October.
2007 -- Selection by jury for the KVIE Art Auction for "Coleus"
2007 -- Honorable Mention at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center Photography competition for "Coleus"
2006 -- Selection by jury for the KVIE Art Auction for "San Francisco Lights"

My photographs are displayed at the Blue Moon Gallery in Sacramento.   I also periodically give presentations on photography topics at the Sun City Lincoln Photo Club.