Me at Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah, in March, 2026.
I built this site by hand but had quite a bit of help from ChatGPT and Google's AI on scripts and the current state of web development.
I've tried to keep it simple and "responsive," meaning it should scale up and down and display as intended on phones, laptops and bigger screens. I’ve chosen to display photos at full size rather than opening them in separate windows. I find popup windows a bit annoying, personally.
Each page is checked with the HTML validator from the W3C. Like AI, the validator is another free and fast service to help with building a website.
My photographic interest is in landscape photography. "Landscape" is a broad category, and it might be easier to say what it isn't rather than what it is: it's not street photography, it's not portrait photography, it's not wildlife photography, etc. For me, "landscape" includes traditional photos of mountains, streams, and wide open vistas, but also close-up, detailed "botanicals" (flowers, details of plants), with an occasional building or man-made structure thrown in for the fun of it.
I was born in 1956, so I'm currently I live with my wife. We've been married for many years and have 2 children, both boys. The boys are married and have children of their own. We're all started out in Illinois, then moved to Missouri. The boys moved West to Arizona and California after school and in 2018 my wife and I moved to Arizona--to be closer to the kids and grandkids, of course. As a bonus, Arizona is a good base for exploring the rest of the West.
I'm not very interested in gear. When I feel I need something, I research it for a while and then buy. Soon after, I forget the details. I shoot digital and use three zoom lenses--one very wide, one medium, and one a little longer on a full frame digital SLR.
I print what I think are my good photos on archival paper with archival ink and store them in archival boxes. Lots of archiving going on, but experience has taught me that formats and devices change constantly, and normal drug-store photos fade fast, so if you want an image in the future, an old-fashioned archival print is what you want.
