Photography

The primary focus of my photographic work in the past decade has been landscape, macro, and texture photography.

Key Highlights

• Trained as a photojournalist at The Poynter Institute.

• Recently, specialized in landscape, macro, and texture photography.

• Utilized original photography to support marketing-communications content.

When I was young, my mother bought a B&W Polaroid camera. To instantly see a picture was pure magic to me. After the rest of my family grew tired of the novelty, I rescued it from disuse. At about 8 years old, I started experimenting with instamatics. Then in high school, I managed to buy a low-end 35mm film camera — a sturdy Vivitar I loved. I enjoyed years of shooting mainly B&W. At the time I also attended The Poynter Institute, where I studied photojournalism and got field experience in how to shoot and compose. After college, I bought my beloved Nikon 35mm. Later I transitioned to digital. I now use a Canon DSLR. I still miss film, yet the immediate experience of digital is rather like the magic of our old Polaroid.

Here is a sample of my landscape, macro, and texture work shot during my digital nomad years (2012-2025).

landscapes

Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, NC

Coast off Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, ME

Pass-a-Grille Beach, FL

Avon, Outer Banks, NC

Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, NC

(Reflections work) Merchants Millpond State Park, NC's coastal plain

Looking Glass Falls, Pisgah National Forest, Brevard, NC

Pea Island, Lower Outer Banks, NC

(Reflections work) Stone Mountain, GA

Owls Head Lighthouse, ME

Pea Island, Lower Outer Banks, NC

NaNa Dune, “the Beach Lady,” FL's tallest dune, American Beach, Amelia Island, FL

Gulf Stream and Labrador currents collide creating intense activity and upwelling at Cape Point, Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, NC (This area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic because of the many shipwrecks that occur there.)

Off I-75, Perry, GA

Watauga Lake, Appalachian Mountains, Hampton, TN

Avon, Lower Outer Banks, NC

Grand Ridge, Olympic National Park, WA (barely visible Mt. Olympus beyond the Ridge)

I prefer to shoot alone because I shift into a 'zone' where all I perceive is through the lens, taking me to other worlds. My favorite is 'small worlds' — what we pass by unnoticed in our busy lives.

small worlds (including macro)

Sea foam bubbles (w/my reflection in each), Crescent Beach, FL

Beach Rose (Rosa Rugosa), coastal Maine

Arizona Red Shade (and bee), Pinnacle, NC

Cape Point, Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, NC

Cicada, Pinnacle, NC

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA

Rodanthe, Outer Banks, NC

Fern frond, Earleton, FL

Variegated Cockscomb flower, Pinnacle, NC

Moth, Earleton, FL

Pea Island Beach, Outer Banks, NC

Hawksbeard seed, Pilot Mountain State Park, Pinnacle, NC

Arizona Red Shade, Pinnacle, NC

Monarch butterfly, Pinnacle, NC

Stone Mountain, GA

Camden Hills cliffs, Tenants Harbor, St. George, ME

Curious 1.5-in female Praying Mantis, Pinnacle, NC

Sharon's rose, Gainesville, GA

Garden ornament, Gainesville, GA

"Shoot the curl," Nantahala National Forest, NC

Mushroom, Pisgah National Forest, NC

Wolf Spider, woods outside Pinnacle, NC

Cactus flower, Decatur, GA

Wee spider, under a concrete barrier over raging whitewater, Olympic National Park, WA

Cape Point, Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, NC

Common Buckeye butterfly, Reynolda House Gardens, Winston-Salem, NC

Zinnia, Pinnacle, NC

As I travel again in the western U.S. in 2026, I intend to pursue the convergence of art and photography as I incorporate my photographic work into my paintings in the next few years. This might include experimenting with aerial and abstract photography (especially as I dig deeper with macro and texture images in the field).

texture and pattern