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

This is the mission of the photographer, to call our attention to aspects of the world that might otherwise go unnoticed or underappreciated.  But it's not just about seeing with our eyes, it's about seeing with our mind.

What the camera captures on its sensor or film is only a slice of space and time, and thus, in a sense, a fleeting representation of reality.  Certainly, in this process, we strive to capture an image that tickles our fancy, that stimulates our brain.

But to make an image last beyond the present, even beyond our lifetimes, is to capture not a passing state of the world, but an idea, a figment of our own sense of meaning and understanding of reality.  An image need not faithfully represent the material world, but rather what we as photographers feel and think.  In this way, photography becomes an art.  Photography must push images to the edges of the abstract, un-linking our everyday visions of the physical with our deepest thoughts and feelings about the world.

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

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.