About Me

A non-Arizona native for almost 40 years, I was once a web and database designer. These days I devote all my time to my photography, capturing digital images of landscape, nature, travel, and wildlife here in Southeastern Arizona. I also photograph the better known icons of the Western United States such as the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, and Zion national parks.

Photographing the West is my passion. My weakness is the Siren's call that periodically beckons from Hawaii, enticing me for yet another foray into paradise.

Image Processing

I use linux for my operating system. It doesn't have the cool / expensive programs available for Macs and Windows. The tradeoff is that I don't have to deal with all the anti-virus nonsense. All the images you see on this site were processed using the following programs:

• The GIMP
• LightZone
• Noise Ninja
• ImageMagick
• Custom PHP Scripts

Photo Gear

This is the equipment I used to take the photos on this site. These days I mostly use the D80, D90, 18-200mm, 105mm, 80-400mm, and both flash units.

Cameras

• Nikon D100
• Nikon D70s
• Nikon D80
• Nikon D90
• Nikon E5700
• Nikon S550
• Olympus C3000Z

Lenses

• Kenko 1.4x Teleplus Pro 300 Teleconverter 1.4/5
• Nikon 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 AFS DX VR Nikkor IF-ED G 3.5-5.6/18-200
• Nikon 18-70mm F3.5-4.5 AF-S Nikkor ED G 3.5-4.5/18-70
• Nikon 35-80mm F4-5.6 AF Nikkor D 4.0-5.6/35-80
• Nikon 55mm F2.8 AF Micro Nikkor 2.8/55
• Nikon 70-210mm F4-5.6 AF Nikkor D 4.0-5.6/70-210
• Nikon 80-400mm F4.5-5.6 AF VR Nikkor D 4.5-5.6/80-400
• Nikon 105mm F2.8 AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 8G IF-ED 2.8/105
• Sigma 1.4x EX DG Tele Converter 1.4/5
• Sigma 50-500mm F4-6.3 Sigma APO DG HSM D 4.0-6.3/50-500

Flash Units

• Nikon SB-600 AF Speedlight
• Sigma Sigma EM-140 DG RING ITTL FLASH f/NIKON AF - SIEM140DGN

Supports

• Gitzo Gitzo MK2 INT PRO STUDX PERF CF TRPD w/o COL - GIG1348
• Manfrotto Bogen / Manfrotto 695 MAGFIBER 5-SEC MONOPOD - BO695