My professional photography career began as a staff photographer for the Hagerstown, MD Morning Herald. I won first place in Spot News from the Pennsylvania Managing Editors before transferring to the Heralds' corporate headquarters, The South Bend Tribune later that year.

At the Tribune I had special interests in features and sports that included Notre Dame football games andspecial basketball games for U.P.I.

I am a native of Martinsburg, WV which is located only seventy miles from Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. The chamber says it's "the northern gateway to the Shenandoah Valley". I return as often as possible
to fish the states' mountain streams or the Chesapeake Bay and spend time with lifelong friends
pretending we're teenagers again.

I left the newspaper business after five years to begin a career as a freelance, photojournalist.

I discovered the World Wide Web in 1993 and launched the first version of my website the following year that featured only samples of photojournalistic approach.

My website exposed me and my work to a global audience and resulted in photojournalism assignments in the midwest from agencies, academic institutions, magazines and publications in Australia, California, Canada, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Germany, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Corporate credits include Miles Labs, Eli Lilly, Ameritech, Hoosier Racing Tire, Holiday Rambler, Coachmen, Kitty Litter, National Steel and regional healthcare and financial institutions.

Academic credits include University of Notre Dame, Culver Academy, St. Mary's College, Indiana and Pudue University, Wittenburg University, Aquinas College, Ancilla College, Vanderbilt University, Johns Hopkins, Trinity International University and University of Wisconsin at River Falls.

I am a frequent lecturer at C.A.S.E.(Council for Advancement and Support of Education) seminars presenting examples of photography for academic institutions.

Magazine credits include Redbook, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inside Buick, Promo, Athlon Publications, Dental Economics, Young Physician's, Mutual Funds, Customer Support, Food Service Equipment and Supply, For Women First and two German magazines, NeuePost and Burda.

I am a member of N.A.P.P. (National Association of Photoshop Professionals,  the Chicago chapter of A.S.M.P. (American Society of Media Photographers), E.P. (Editorial Photographers), and U.P.A.A. (University Photographers Association of America).