There is a memory between one moment and the next; a memory that no amount of posing or smiling for the camera will ever reveal. It is in those moments that we are most real, most vulnerable, most beautiful, most ourselves.

My goal is to make images that are honest, emotional, funny, touching, sad, beautiful and moving. I bring a photojournalist’s perspective to making photos, preferring to let events unfold naturally. It is the great privilege of my life to be allowed to find beauty and art in the people and the world around me.

I’ve yet to find anything that comes as close to expressing my philosophy about the world as these few words by Walt Whitman.

I read. I love. I listen. I pay attention. And I take pictures. When other people are busy acting or performing or trying to impress, I pay attention. When the world is going through each day as though it were just like the one before, I pay attention…and it makes a difference. It makes a difference in how I view the world and how I photograph the people in it.

I was born, raised and spent most of my life in the Bay Area. These days, however, I am fortunate to make my home in beautiful Western Massachusetts where, along with my family, I strive to create a home that is warm and open to whomever happens to be passing through town or needs some time away. I am passionate about the people in my life and the work I do each day.

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families,