In my photography the camera and lens are my “brush and canvas” with which to render my “vision” of what lies before me, and to choreograph the three-partnered dance between my creative soul, my camera and lens, and the subject. In short, I seek to capture and interpret life’s visual symphonies, one click at a time. It's not just a street scene; it’s the feeling of intensity or loneliness in the crowd. It’s not a group of trees; it’s their movement, strength, balance and grace. It’s not a body of water; it’s layers of texture and color in sand or shoreline, water and sky, or in the reflections of trees and sky on the water’s surface. It’s not a person in a studio; it’s her energy, personality or charisma, or her interaction with another, real or imagined. It’s not peeling paint on a surface; its an abstract revelation amongst decay framed by a camera lens. It’s not buildings; it’s an interaction of geometric shapes, forms and colors. And it's not just someone playing a guitar, it's their feeling as the notes stream from their soul, through their fingers and out into space. I work nearly exclusively within the camera. There is very little software processing (other than subtle adjustments to brightness, contrast and color saturation). With the rarest of exception when I use it to “blend” several images together when in-camera multiple exposure techniques will not yield what I want, nothing is “photoshoped in” in my work. It is created by what I see, how it “speaks” to me, and the in-camera and compositional techniques I employ to create the work and present it to the viewer.

When I was a kid living in NYC my mother used to take me to art galleries. Even then I was completely absorbed by abstract painting. I would stand in front of works by Rothko, Pollack, Seurat, and countless others mesmarized by what I would "see" and "feel" in their works. When I took to fine art photography, much of how I saw things and my "vision" was influenced abstract painting. And, in fact, many people viewing my abstract photography have told me they thought it was a painting, yet all of it is created in-camera, with no photoshop "filters" or modifications. It is just the result of how I "see" things. For years I had been tempted to put paint on a canvas and see what it evoked. Enter the pandemic..It was my "invitation", and I accepted it wholeheartedly. The paintings shown here represent my initial forays into the world of abstract painting. These were photographed with no more than my cell phone with available room light, out of an urge to get them up. Better photographs of them will follow. I have been looking to the techniques and compositional qualities of some of those whose works I have admired since I was a kid in a museum - Rothko, Pollock, Richter - and more recently dozens or talented painters whose work I have seen on Instagram. Using those techniques I have ventured into working toward finding my own vision. What you see here are the results of my early journeys on the road to painting...I hope you enjoy some of them. They are all done with acrylic paints, most on canvas, and some on paper.