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...Tomoka River Basin & Ocean Shore

Photography: 1985 - 1988

Exhibited: Edison Community College Gallery, Ft. Myers, Florida., Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens, Ormond Beach, Florida.

Statement: The Tomoka River Basin is a part of the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway going from Norfolk, Virginia and ending in Miami, Florida. The Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway is made up of naturally deep estuaries, rivers, and sounds connected by man made cuts through land areas and shallows. The Tomoka River Basin is in Volusia County, Florida and it's outlet to the Atlantic Ocean is at the Ponce De Leon Inlet.

 
 
 
...Spruce Creek

Photography: 1988 - 1992

Awarded: Florida Individual Artist Fellowship

Exhibited: The Museum of Arts & Science, Daytona Beach, Florida, The Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida, The U.S. House of Representatives, Cannon Building, Washington, DC.

Statement: Spruce Creek is a meandering tidal black water creek in Central Florida, emptying into Rose Bay, the Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway, and finally into the Ponce DeLeon Inlet to the Atlantic Ocean. It has areas of wetlands, savannah, and palm forest along it's route to the Inlet.

 
 
 
...St. Johns River

Photography: 1993 - 1996

Awarded: Florida Individual Artist Fellowship

Exhibited: The Museum of Arts and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, Florida, Florida Fine Arts Fellowships Twentyfifth Anniversary Exhibit, Traveling, Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Statement: The St. Johns River is unique in that it meanders from south to north and connects several small lakes from Central Florida to Jacksonville, Florida where it exits into the Atlantic Ocean around Mayport Naval Station. It encompasses many estuaries, logging canals, extensive marsh areas, wetland systems, and bird sanctuaries.

 
 
 
...Firemarkings

Photography: July 1998

Exhibited: The Museum of Arts and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida, Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Statement: Firemarkings is a portfolio of images taken just after one of the largest forest fires raged through Central Florida in the early summer of 1998. It destroyed undeveloped forested areas as well as highly developed areas and lasted for a period of weeks.

 
 
 
...Shore Patterns

Photography: 1998 - 1999

Exhibited: The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Statement: Abstractions, designs, and patterns in black and white created in the ocean and on the shore. I thought of creating this series of images in much the way a painter might envision a painting before he or she places paint upon the canvas. I allowed for creativity within a certain framework and vision.

 
 
 
...North Dakota & The Clay Walls

Photography: 1989 - 1997

Exhibited: The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, The Atlantic Center For The Arts, Harris House Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Statement: This portfolio is a continuation of my interest in creating an abstract image. The combination of light and shadow with natural formations found in the rocks and canyon walls is unique to the Badlands of North Dakota. The harshness of the light and creation of the deep shadows were combined to create a bold and dramatic image.

 
 
 
...Florida Etudes

Photography: 2000 - 2003

Exhibited: The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Statement: Often, a certain piece of music will stimulate a photographic journey for me. The intricate piano pieces and brevity found in Chopin's Etudes was part of the stimulus for these simple but yet complex images of a small piece of nature. This portfolio has to do with death or dying found in nature.

 
 
 
...Untitled; Light & Abstraction

Photography: 2005

Exhibited: Crealde School of Art Gallery, Winter Park, Florida, Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Statement: Untitled: Light & Abstraction was a departure for me. I wanted to explore the possibilities and experiment with the image found within the negative. Therefore, much of the creative process happened in the darkroom, pushing the negative to almost its breaking point. The final print is an exploration of design and abstraction in black and white.

 
 
 

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