Artists Registry

As a child I loved taking photos of our family dog, birthday cakes and our trips to the Jersey shore. For years I hadn't picked up a camera until I began to seek my vision in life. I remembered my love of photography and that of black and white photos that I saw as a child.

At the age of when they say life begins, (40) I began to show others the world around me, which included: life and death, destruction and fear, joy and faith, honor and patriotism, pain and sorrow, beauty and desecration. The images I showed others are of things that they may have not wanted to see or embrace, but each a part of our daily life.

Through the years I have won several awards for the images I captured. The first was of the Honor Guard at a Maryland State Troopers funeral in 2000, others included children playing in a waterfall, a historic covered bridge, a beautiful sunrise, thousand year old trees and the aftermath of a burnt out home.

On the 18th of September 2001, I ventured to New York city to see for myself that what I witnessed on TV a week before actually happened to America. While walking in the area that had become known as Ground Zero, I took over 800 pictures that day, 20 became photos and 6 became images. You see while seeking out my vision I learned that anyone can take a picture, some can take a photo, but few can capture an image. Images are what make you realize a moment in your life that say I was there, I remember that and I will never forget that moment.

Six of my Ground Zero images had been selected to be part of the traveling This Is New York exhibit, something that I will always be very proud of even though they show others what they may not have wanted to see, feel or embrace.