In retrospect... it seems perfectly natural that I would become an Equine photographer. I have loved horses since the age of 5, when a friend gave me a book of horse breeds. It was a little book, published in England and filled with Black and White photographs of every horse breed imaginable. Was I interested in horses before that? I do not remember. What I do remember is that from that moment I was hooked! I poured over every picture, going back often to look at my favorites. By ten, I was so obsessed, that I was sent to riding camp for a few summers. What happened when I got into my mid-teens is hard to say. Maybe because I never had a horse of my own. Maybe because I had no horse crazy friend. Whatever the reason, I stopped riding and my love of horses receded to a shadow haunting the recesses of my heart. The other constant in my life has been photography. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Psychology, and getting my first 35mm camera as a gift, I found myself photographing constantly for my own pleasure. I focused primarily on Architecture and its' elements. Concentrating on texture, contrast, shade and shadow. I moved to NYC and worked with a fine art reproduction photographer and began to show my own work.

In 1988, at the age of 30, I entered Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. It was while living in Michigan that I began the slow process that has returned my to horses. The Michigan State Fair has a fantastic Draft Horse show. I started to photograph these events. As anyone who does, knows someone who loves horses, can tell you, it never goes away. We learn our way through the world using horses and horse farms as our landmarks. Every horse trailer we pass on the road, we look at to see what is inside. We sniff leather and sigh, in love with the smell. It took 10 more years before I began to ride again. My 40th birthday present to myself was a series of riding lessons. It was three years more before I bought my first horse, Tony a Belgian/Quarter Horse cross. 1 ½ years later came Doc, a registered Buckskin Quarter Horse. While immersing myself in the horse world, it has been natural to bring my cameras along. What was 40 years in the making has become a new career. Combining my two greatest pleasures Horses and Photography, has produced a body of work that embodies the elements of Texture, Contrast, Shade and Shadow and the Beauty of the Horse!