Growing up, I had to learn how to see the world around me in a different way, as one of my eyes was damaged in a childhood accident. Colors, composition and natural beauty were quite often what I focused on. Early on, I developed an interest in drawing, painting and photography as vehicles to document the way I saw my day-to-day environment and learned to express these images in many ways on different media and technologies as my creative skills developed. I found myself drawn to the art room in school where I could create images being mentored by my instructors and traditional studies of various print making techniques. Gradually, my photographic skills led to shooting with large 8 x 10 and 4 x 5 view cameras and experimenting with many different printing techniques during over 35 years of working in darkrooms and then evolving to digital print studios. Today, I utilize all of this life’s experience to capture and compose unique abstract images of our natural world around us by creating dynamic illusions of what is surrounding us in our visual environment.