My Passion for photography is inspired by Nature. The search for amazing stand out images has been a life long journey that has led me to the west coast , Northern california, and the meeting of a Native American Medicine man Charlie Thom Red Hawk. Charlie was the real deal from the Karuk Tribe , he was raised in the marble mountains by his grand parents , I met charlie at a sweat lodge cermony in New Paltz N Y. after anumber of years traveling charlie decided to stay on the west coast at his home in Fort Jones Califorina. I went hiking into the high country of the Marble mountain wildwerness. , led by Charlie where we built a purfication sweat lodge and he showed us sacred prayer rocks, after that journey in to the high country I returned every summer for14 years, pryor to all that:
I worked for 11 years in {1978-1989} NYC for AD-LINK, a black and white photo labin the heart of mid town, "The Diamond District". I worked as a black and white printer, contact printing and enlarging, contact proofs, and prints 5x7 to 20x24.I converted color slides to black and white, I did studio work using a 8x10 view camera. After being laid off, I then worked in the black and white darkroom of a place called C and R. in Hackensack NJ. We did restoration of old photos. That was a two year gig. Then I worked for a portrait company called Lorstan taking high school portraits. Fun stuff, we had our own camera and lighting set up. I am a musician and have run 15 marathons. I studied Tai CHI at the TAIChi Farm for four years and also studied African Drumming, with master drummer Koffi Donker,I have photographed weddings, musicians, Native American indians, art work, and landscapes.
NEW CHANGES: I just added a NEW gallery - OLD SCHOOL BLACK AND WHITE. These are prints I made when I was working in NYC. Done the traditional way ,yes in the dark, with 3 trays and a safe light!