After a 14-year newspaper career and a 10-year hiatus from taking photographs, a revived interest in landscape photography prompted me to pick up my cameras again in the mid-1990s. After spending several years improving my photography, I started Quiet Places Photography in 2003, leading to numerous appearances in juried art shows, exhibitions, and publications

A photo project started in 2009 inspired fresh approaches to my landscape photography. “Places of Spirit and Light” – photographs of churches in rural and small-town Iowa – was featured in two solo shows and published in Issue #109 (2013) of LensWork magazine. One photo from that project was included in the LensWork 25th anniversary edition and a LensWork collection titled “Looking at Photographs”. Other photographs have appeared in three other LensWork publications as well as Fine EYE Magazine and On Landscape magazine.

I received a first-place award in the New York Center for Photographic Arts (NYC4PA) exhibit “Abstract” (2021) and a second-place award in the NYC4PA’s exhibit “Wandering Curves” (2017). He was curated into the Southeast Center for Photography’s exhibit “Portals” (2020) and “Flora” (2021) and NYC4PA’s exhibit “Black and White 2020” (Juror’s Selection).

My photographs are in the permanent collections at Mary Greeley Hospital; the Municipal Fire and Police Retirement System of Iowa, The University of Iowa Library, and are on display in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Kansas City office. The Iowa Farm Bureau Association of Iowa selected my photograph Summer Storm to represent the state at the Farm Bureau National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

He lives in Altoona, IA, with his wife, Nancy.