"This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it". Psalm 118:23-25
"A birth certificate shows that we were born; a death certificate shows that we died...Pictures show that we lived." Anonymous
My photographs visually celebrate the gift of each day. I enjoy capturing emotions elicited by the colors, tones, lines and textures of nature, architecture and abstracts I call "metalscapes".
I've been invited to produce two solo exhibits, "This Magic Moment" and "Brand New Day". I've also produced two duo shows, "Silent Footsteps" in 2020 with painter and sculptor Charles McElfish, and "Double Vision" in 2006 with photographer Marshall Dupuie. Extra credit if you recognize the song references -- music is one of my other passions, and it always goes hand-in-hand (eye-and-ear?) with my photo activities.
I'm often invited to be a guest judge for photography clubs and competitions in the Baltimore-Washington area. In 2014, I was invited to be one of the jurors for the multi-media Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College, considered by many as one of the top arts festivals in the nation.
I'm the past president of the Board of Directors of the Allegany Arts Council in Cumberland, Maryland and continue to serve on its Board. I also am the co-chair of the Art Council's Photography Committee, helping to organize the annual Allegany National Photography Competition and Exhibition (ANPCE). The ANPCE attracts hundreds of entries from throughout the U.S. each April.
I'm a member and past president of the Frederick (Maryland) Camera Clique and a member of the Delaplaine Arts Center, the Frederick Arts Council, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, and the Fort Collier Civil War Center.
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