Seeing an image slowly develop in the foggy, red light of a darkroom triggered my passion for photography. That may sound strange, coming from a traditionalist with a Masters Degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.
It was magical. It captured my imagination, awakened an unfulfilled creative urge. Satisfying that need to create, lead me to build my own darkroom. Those hours and hours of photographic experimentation in the darkroom lead me to appreciate even more the opportunities for creative exploration that came with the digital cameras and Photoshop.
This passion has lead me to travel around the world taking photographs and attending workshops by some of the greatest photographers of our time: Ansel Adams, George Tice, Ruth Bernhard and others. I was privileged to meet Brett Weston in his home in Carmel where he developed his stunning images. Perhaps my ultimate photographic experience was having dinner with Ansel and Virginia Adams in both their Yosemite and Carmel homes.
The passion has lead to memories: from darkroom to the digital age, accounting to creative expression, from India to Yosemite, Peru to Irving, TX. Perhaps that is what photography is all about … capturing memories.
ORGANIZATIONS
Texas Photographic Society
Texas Professional Photographers Association
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2010 Irving Arts Center, solo exhibition, Images of India | Irving Arts Center, Irving Texas
2011 Irving Arts Center, Members’ Show | Juried Exhibition | Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas
2012 Irving Arts Center, Members’ Show | Juried Exhibition | Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas
2013 McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Members’ Show | MAC, Dallas, Texas
2013 New Texas Talent Exhibition | Juried Exhibition | Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Morning News Amateur Photographer of the Year Contest |Juried Exhibition
2015 Texas Photographic Society 24: The International Competition Exhibition | Dr. David L. Coleman Juror
2015 Texas Photographic Society 28th Annual Members’ Only Show | Keith Carter Juror
2015 New Texas Talent Exhibition | Juried Exhibition | Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016 Texas Photographic Society | Foto Texas 2016 | Dan Burkholder Juror | Brazos Gallery, Richland College
Dallas, Texas | October 21 thru November 11, 2016
Dallas, Texas | October 21 thru November 11, 2016
2017 Texas Photographic Society 30th Annual Members: Only Show | Malcom Daniel Juror, Curator of
Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2018 Dallas Camera Club | Annual Awards for 2017-2018 | Guy Reynolds Juror, Photo Editor of the Dallas Morning News
J.J. Spurlock Award for Creative Portraiture | First Place
The Marge Dance Award for Contemporary Images | First Place
The Milton J. Rudick Travel Image Award | First Place
Dallas Camera Club | Advanced Monochrome Print | First Place
Dallas Camera Club | Advanced Projected Image | First Place
2018 Center for Photographic Art Members' Juried Exhibition | Charles Cramer Juror | Carmel, California
2018 Irving Art Association | Photography Competition | November 2018 | Third Place
2019 Irving Art Association | 64th Annual Members' Juried Exhibition | Irving Arts Center
2019 Irving Arts Center | 19th Annual Art Connection Members' Show | Third Place
2019 Center for Photographic Art 2019 International Juried Exhibition | Paula Tognarelli Juror | Carmel, California
2019 Photo Place Gallery | Abstraction Exhibition | Kirsten Hoving Juror | Middlebury, Vermont
2019 New York Center for Photographic Art | Water 2020 | Mark Sink Juror | New York
2020 Dallas Camera Club | Annual Awards
Advanced Projected | High Points Award | First Place
Masters Projected Monochrome | Third Place
Image of the Year Color | Second and Third Place
J.J. Spurlock Award for Creative Portraiture | First and Second Place
2021 New Texas Talent Exhibition | Juried Exhibition | Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2021 Susan Kindley & Hugh Adams Exhibition | Recent Works | Irving Arts Center