After a 33-year career as an international geologist and years of living abroad, I retired to home in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2013, and dedicated myself to photography. I wasn’t new to the art. Influenced by my father, a talented and passionate amateur photographer with a home darkroom, I had lugged a camera around since my teen years.
I’ve long been in thrall to the beautiful in all its forms. As a photographer I pursued many different subjects from wildlife to landscapes to architecture to abstract. It’s curious that in much of my photography I long sought to avoid people in the picture. Yet I always loved the female form – who doesn’t!—and over the years I had a growing love of dance as well. It was only as I approached retirement and had the financial means to work with professional models and mentors that I could explore these subjects as I had long aspired to and take my photography to a higher level.
