In 1975 I launched my public photographic career with a well-received show of b&w portraits in San Francisco at the Art Gallery located in the World Headquarters of the Bank of America. All was right with the world until I opened a registered letter to learn that the bank and I were being sued by one of my subjects for invasion of privacy. I found myself defending a photographer's right to photograph people in public. The Jury returned a verdict for myself and the bank.

Having weathered that storm, I thought I could make it anywhere and moved to New York City. I looked up Irving Penn, my favorite photographer in the whole world, and landed a job making contact sheets in his darkroom and spotting his platinum-palladium 16x20" portraits.

From 1977-1990, I worked in my studio and on location in New York and its environs taking portraits for magazine illustration and publicity purposes.

In 1984 I became a student of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In 1990 I moved to Halifax where I worked at the Shambhala Buddhist Archives and now as a freelance photographer. In 2001 I had the good fortune to journey to Tibet with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as the documentary photographer.

In Nova Scotia I have uncovered a love of horses that has become, along with Buddhism and photography, my ongoing passion.

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