About Me...

I was raised in Los Angeles and acquired an interest in photography at an early age as my father exposed me to lab procedures, when he would turn one of our homes rooms, into a darkroom. On family trips to Yosemite National Park where he would lift me up to look through the ground glass of his “twin-lens Rollie”. In high school I took photography as an elective and excelled using 4x5 a Speedgraphic camera as well as other formats.

I was encouraged by my teacher, who had a background in art, to consider photography as a career. While pursuing photographic studies at California State University Northridge, I purchased her first 2 ¼” format camera, a used Hasselblad. At this time she was also active in groups such as Cameravision and Women in Photography which is currently Women in Photography International (WIPI), where I was a “Founding Member”.

After college I worked in the Ohio State University, Photography Department where I created photographic teaching tools for the faculty, who at the time were using “glass lantern slides” for lecturing around the country. This also marked my first sale of a print to a teacher working in the Ohio State Art Department.

The next years were devoted to using 4x5 field cameras and 35mm formats. In the late 1980s I produced a documentary series of Sunset Blvd., to show the multi-cultured nature of the city of Los Angeles. In the 1990s I concentrated on hand-tinting of both landscape and abstract images and a produced a series of hand-tinted detail studies, the “New Mexican Pueblos”.

Most recently I have been working with digital imagery on a new triptych series of color landscape work titled “Elements”, “Western Landscape” using Jackson Hole, Wyoming as a base and an ongoing series of “Elephant Seals”.