I am a freelance photographer, artist, writer and environmentalist.  I have a BA degree in English Literature from Rutgers University, 1965, and I worked for many years as the principal photographer for Princeton University’s Art Museum.  I have lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, all of my life, and, as a photographer, much of my artistic work has depicted the landscapes of the Piedmont region of the state.  My book, The Vanishing New Jersey Landscape, was published by Rutgers University Press in 1994.  Many of the landscape photographs shown here are selections from that book.

My recent photography is abstract in nature, focusing on minute details of landscape and isolating forms and patterns of movement that imitate the greater patterns of earth’s surface observed by satellite and space telescope imagery.  When exhibiting these new works I display comparative images by juxtaposing photographs from NASA files with my own close focus views of ice in small streams and details of wood grain and patterns of bark on trees.  My quest for the abstract in the real explores the spiritual effects of water and wood.

In the past, my photography was traditionally based, employing large format cameras to create silver gelatin prints.  Now I work with a blend of scanned large format negatives and digitally generated images, printed on high resolution inkjet printers. 

My artistic work has closely paralleled my conservation efforts. I have been chairman of the Montgomery Township Open Space Committee since it was formed in 1989.  During these years I have helped Montgomery craft an extensive open space and pathways master plan through which I have been able to facilitate the process of purchasing land for conservation and help the Township access grants and promote partnerships with other land conservation groups and agencies.  I serve as a trustee of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, an advisor to the Montgomery Friends of Open Space, and was the first recipient of the Donald B. Jones Award given by the D & R Greenway.  Recently, I assisted the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the publication of the Garden State Greenways Report, and I was featured on the NJN documentary Turning the Tide.  In addition, I work regularly on special landscape restoration projects with the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association.

As a member of the Princeton Artists Alliance, I have enjoyed helping organize and present the regular schedule of major group exhibits this group has initiated in recent years.  A list of recent group exhibits is available upon request or on the website of the Alliance.  My work appeared in Visions and Voices, a Princeton Artists Alliance partnership with selected regional poets that was exhibited at the Trenton State Museum.  We are currently working on an exhibition, in cooperation with the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, that will explore the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

I have exhibited my work annually at many venues throughout the state since 1972.  A list is available on request.

Life and work in the New Jersey landscape