I have always been passionate about photography. It's what gets me jazzed. Photography was not my major in college. I have a Fine Arts degree. After many years as a photo art director, spending a great deal of my time, evaluating, hiring, and working with photographers, surrounding and emersing myself in their work, I finally started to take my own development as a photographer seriously. Two things tipped the scales for me. The first was coming to the inner "knowing" that photography was what I was meant to do. And the second was the arrival of a little yellow lab puppy in my life. I brought her home from a photo art direction assignment for Orvis at Lake Tahoe ten years ago.

The moment I started to photograph nine week old puppy "Zoey", I knew she was going to change my life. We developed the kind of bond that only our pets can offer us. And I started creating the kind of photographic images of her that excited me all the way to my core. My new career was being born.

These days I own a commercial photo studio in Portland, Maine and have a smaller studio at my home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I photograph dogs for stock and assignment as well as for catalogs, greeting cards, calendars and of course, portraits... I have a tremendous love for dogs. I walk down the street and want to pat every dog I see. They make me smile inside and out.

Portrait sessions allow me to meet lots of interesting dogs and owners, and to create beautiful and simple images that capture each dog's uniqueness and character, moments frozen in time that will last forever. Because a dog's life is just too short.