Every image tells a story. That's more than a motto for me. It's a truth that makes itself evident hundreds if times a day. I look at photographs see inside them narratives and allegories. Perhaps it's because I've been such an avid reader all my life, my imagination fueled my thousands of books through the years. Maybe it's the artist in me who has always enjoyed sketching, painting, creating images that express the creative urges that stir in me. My photography is certainly an extension of that: a form of art and storytelling that does more than just record a moment in time.

I started out doing photography as many of us do; taking snapshots of the people and places that I care about. It wasn't until an assignment I was on one year in Gallup, New Mexico that my obsessive nature took over my life. I worked at that time for a non-profit agency which helped homeless veterans, and I was in Gallup on behalf of the agency to take photos of the Stand Down we were holding there. I had been given a digital camera to use, and I drove every day the four-plus hours round trip between Gallup and Albuquerque for three days. The third day a snowstorm hit on my way home to Albuquerque. Instead of being terrified at the terrible driving conditions, I was mesmerized by the incredible landscape scenes that were developing around me. I couldn't help myself, I stopped just about every five miles and stood in the blowing tempest to capture bits of snow clinging to cacti and Piñon, mesa and barbed wire fences. I was hooked. I didn't get home for five hours, I scared my boss to death. In those days my camera was a Sony, the kind you could slip a floppy disk into, and it had all of 1.3 MP.

So much has changed since then. I traded my Sony in for a Canon. I began at first to offer my images to stock.xchange, where I learned a great deal from some wonderful photographers. (I still contribute there, and the photos are free to use under certain circumstances, it is a fantastic resource full of some talented people.) I had been an artist for most of my life, and it wasn't hard to translate those visions to the lens of a camera.

Two years ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in a fashion show as a photographer, the Urbanesque Fashion Show, hosted by Hart Mind Soul. This past year I was part of a gallery show, 1 x 20, One Model, Twenty Photographers. It was a great deal of fun. I've had to take some breaks from doing as much as I would have liked to this past year due to an illness and subsequent surgery, it has been a relief to get back to where I am able to work full time.

I've had my work published in more places than I could list on a single web page, though you can peruse some of my favorites on my Works page. Much of it has been for schools and universities in textbooks, posters and other publications, as well as a great many charity events and causes. I have several book covers and a few magazine articles, as countless blogs and web articles and applications.

I have several personal photography projects, as well as several freelance commercial projects upcoming, some of which I will show here if I get the chance, check back frequently to see what's new, or sign up for my newsletter. I also offer casting call opportunities for my photographic endeavors, some paying, others offer free prints in exchange, those casting calls are listed in the newsletter as well.

In addition to my photography work, I am also a full time office manager for a mechanical insulation business, a co-owner of a computer and IT consulting business, a volunteer for the Albuquerque Animal Shelter, a Board Member for the New Mexico Art League, and a homemaker for a family of six. I have several blogs, and am working with my talented mother on a great cookbook we hope to see published next year.