Most photos shown on this site come from my wanderings that include travel, hiking, and generally enjoying natural and urban landscapes. I post the image here for others to, hopefully, enjoy. In the blog part of this site, I hope to tell stories from my wanderings and from my past work, linked to some of the posted photos. Not all posted photos have linked stories; they are just images that my eye saw, which I thought I would like to see again and others might like to see too.

I am now retired. Previously, for 40+ years I worked as a consulting environmental scientist, contracting mostly to governmental agencies, and sometimes industry, most recently addressing endangered species recovery needs, habitat restoration, aquatic ecology, water quality, toxicology, risk assessment, watershed management, acid rain, climate change, and ... a useful consultant requires diverse knowledge and expertise. I now volunteer with groups helping to address endangered species and water supply issues along the Rio Grande, plus I travel and keep trying to improve my photography.

For the past two decades, I have been photographing and traveling from Albuquerque, NM. I typically leave the house with a camera. Equipment junkies always like to learn what cameras one uses. So to address that need and since photos from all of my present and past cameras are likely to appear on this site, I started exposing film when I was 9 using a Sawyer Nomad 120. I still have all of those photos, but not the Sawyer. Over time, I moved on to an Instamatic 104, a Ricoh SLR (stolen), Pentax MX (which I loved with its 28 f/2.8), Olympus XA, Canon Elan IIe, and their EOS 3 (perhaps the best 35 mm SLR ever). My digital photos started with a Nikon Coolpix 700. I then moved on to Canons G2, G5, 10D, 40D, 5D, 6D, and now a Sony RX100ii for the pocket, a Sony a7ii mostly for landscape photos (which will likely get replaced whenever I decide it is time), and a Nikon AW100 when I am out in or on the water. For travel photos, I now mostly use a Lumix GX8 kit and their G9 with their 100-400 for birds and other wildlife. I started to become fond of M4/3s for their smaller sizes and quality photos using first a Panasonic G1 and a GF2 (for backup and the pocket). Later I moved to a G3, GX1, OMD EM5, EM1, and now the GX8 and G9. Finally, for those, like me, questing for cameras with more megapixels, my one most sought after photo, used on book and reports covers, in books, and on webpages was taken with the 2 MP Coolpix. Go figure. I maybe could have saved a lot of money if I stop buying at my first digicam but it would not have been as much fun.