A Survey of the American West

It is an honor to have my western landscape images shown in the most beautiful city in the American West! San Francisco – with its rich history beginning as a small pueblo and expanding over time into a modern city filled with great restaurants, gorgeous architecture, distinctive neighborhoods and, of course, an amazing and diverse art culture – is an ideal city to show my work. My photography depicts scenes not found in the city proper, but encompasses restrained tableaux that embody the expansive history of the West, including San Francisco’s.

For my fine art landscape photography, I apply the organizing principles and inspiration: simple shapes, graphic lines, eliminate clutter. Light when necessary. Repeat.

For me, trusting my vision is an extremely important aspect of what I do. I learned long ago not to second guess things like composition or light or content. Photography is, as is many art forms, a reaction to experience, spirit, instinct and that which immediately resonates. I do have visual triggers – a black asphalt road cutting for miles through harvested wheat, an empty, snowy field with a stream curving to a single tree, a small barn with its roof barely visible above a barren hillside. My landscapes do not look the way they do strictly because of the locations; I gravitate to the stark and isolated vistas because they speak to me, are what I feel.

I thank the IAMA for this opportunity to show my work in their unique space.