About

Balancing abstraction and realism, my series of aerial photographs, AERIAS, show grand scale, fine detail, and often a painterly sense of composition.  The work is a depiction of familiar landscapes from an alternative viewpoint, the earth, as seen from above.  I work with ambiguity of scale and the strong graphic quality of nature and the hand of man on nature.

The images present a sense of selective design applied to an extremely small but significant area of the vast landscape over which I fly.  I have logged nearly a quarter of a million miles in my vintage Cessna in pursuit of aerial photography as a fine art.

Most of the photographs are made from an altitude of one thousand feet.