When I was in college just before I left for a year abroad in the UK, my father gave me my first camera, a Pentax Super Program, He told me to see everything and bring home the pictures.

Decades have passed, I still have that camera, and my love of travel and photography has continued to grow. 

To me, landscape photography is therapy. With a camera, I seek out quiet places to set aside work, life decisions, and worries. I become aware of light, shapes, and textures. I raise the camera to my eye, press the shutter, and capture the moment or the mood.

Most images are captured in my home state of Rhode Island, but I don’t find this limiting. Rhode Island, while small, is a wonderfully diverse state filled with seascapes, modern cities, historic neighborhoods, farms, rivers, and woods...all within a few miles of each other.

Beyond my state, I have taken photo-specific trips around New England, the US, and Canada. Through my photography, I have also experienced landscapes and cultures from Peru to Iceland, Ireland to Germany, and Denmark to Greece, to name a few. I continue to be inspired by places along with the fellow photography friends I have made, seeing their work and sharing my own.   

I think about my father giving me my first camera. Thank you, dad. While I have not seen everything, I am still bringing home the pictures.