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 at Lake Tahoe seven years ago.

I've always loved dogs. I desperately wanted one as a kid, but brother Jeff had allergies. So we had fish instead. And a hamster, and two parakeets, one of which my father accidently fried in the frying pan. He was cleaning their cage one Saturday morning while he was making breakfast and...well that's another story.

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. A new career was being born.

These days I own a photo studio in Portland, Maine and photograph dogs for stock and assignment photography as well as for greeting cards and of course, portraits. Portrait sessions allow me not only to meet a plethora of interesting dogs and owners, but to create very personal, high-quality images that bring both me and my clients tremendous pleasure. I have a very special connection with dogs. I see their uniqueness, their character and their beauty through the lens of my camera. Dogs are completely honest, and with patience, respect and kindness, each dog will reveal itself. I just have to click the shutter at the right moment. That takes luck, good equipment and vision. And vision isn't something you learn, it's something you have.