I am happy to announce that my web site has celebrated a one year anniversary.
Thanks to all who have viewed the contents and those who have bought photographs. Please feel free to browse and explore the gallery of photographs.

The print on the right represents one of those life-altering events, professionally speaking, which took my photography in a new direction.

Thanks to an invitation from a friend, I was privileged to attend a Kwakiutl potlatch ceremony in British Columbia, back in May of l999. The occasion was a fairly public celebration of the rebuilding of the tribal Big House, which had been destroyed by a devastating fire.

Various First Nations members gathered from the West Coast of Canada and the U.S. to share their mythologies and legends through dance and song. There were hundreds of people in attendance for this joyous celebration and we were allowed to photograph the performances--a very unusual concession to tradition.

Many of the dancers wore elaborate, hand-carved transformation masks reflecting the spiritual connections between the natural and supernatural worlds. I shot photos under existing light with 35mm film, and later digitally altered the color and background to express my feelings, rather than the reality of the 3-day experience.

The series of photographs are printed on watercolor paper using archival inks. They are available individually, either framed with black matting in a black wood frame, or unframed.

Another professionally altering experience was a vacation a few years ago to Newfoundland, Canada, the island of my birth. I now return regularly to photograph the inspiring landscape. Please have a look at my Newfoundland photos, which includes prints and posters.

The technique that I began to develop with the First Nations series has evolved and can be seen in my more recent photo images.