My first camera was an early, well-worn Leica with a badly abused, heavily scratched 50 millimeter lens. It took spectacular pictures, as sharp and clear as I had ever seen. I found my subjects on the streets of Chicago, and processed my black-and-white images in a community darkroom.

Today, I use a nikon digital camera and shoot with prime lenses ranging from 24 mm , as wide angle as I like to go, to a 700 mm telephoto for birds and an occasional landscape.

My interests have changed again and again. As I live on the Massachusetts coastline near Cape Cod, my focus is on the beauty of my local environment.

I gather tiny snippets of the natural world, as close as my own back yard, and as far away as my travels take me.  Landscapes. Seascapes. Birds. Whatever captures my imagination.