From Capturing Reality to Creating It — and Finding My Way Back
A Journey Through Light, Illusion, and Reality
After graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in Fine Art Photography, I moved to Washington, DC, where I began my career as a freelance photographer and part-time teaching assistant at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. Soon afterwards, I was invited to serve as Director of Photography on a stop-motion animated film—an opportunity that launched a rewarding 45-year career in film, animation and visual effects.
Throughout my career, I have had the pleasure of working as a Director of Photography, Visual Effects Supervisor and Executive Producer across television commercials, feature films, dark rides and a wide range of visual effects projects. I served as Executive Producer and Head of Production at Digital Domain and Ntropic in Los Angeles, as well as Reel FX in Dallas, and spent three years as a visual effects production consultant at Blur Studio. My credits include Deadpool, Tron: Legacy, X-Men: First Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
After more than four decades in the film and television visual effects industry, I have returned to the passion that has always inspired me: travelling with my camera and discovering fresh ways to interpret the world. Rarely without a camera in hand, I now spend my time traveling and photographing what I find. With both of us retired from our former careers, my wife, Melissa, and I are free to explore new places together—capturing the geometry of architecture, the beauty of the natural world, and the unexpected details that make each journey distinctive.
Exhibitions and Awards
2026 Ilminster Arts Center “Photography Open” Winner-Residency Award
2024 UCR Palm Desert-Featured photographer “Architecture : Perspectives: Architecture as Inspiration for Artistic Interpretation"
2023 UCR Palm Desert-Featured photographer "The Modernists"
2022 1st Place Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize for Photography
2021 PX3 Silver Award Winner for TWA Terminal Hotel Click here for link- Silver Award
2021 PX3 Honorable Mention for Poplars on D'arcy Dalton Way
2021 Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize for Photography Runner Up
2020 Palm Springs Photographic Center – Featured Artist: TWA Terminal Hotel
2020 SE Center for Photography “Light” exhibition
2019 UCR Geometrics 101 Exhibition UCR Palm Desert- Featured Artist
2019 Palm Springs Art Museum “Metamorphosis Exhibition”
2019 Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council Juried Show
2018 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Bronze Winner "Salton Sea" Feature • Click Here for Link
2018 Center for Fine Art Photography Juried show: B&W
2018 Photoplace Gallery, VT Juried show: B&W
2018 Amanda Smith Gallery "Director's Award" Vistas Show
2016 Palm Springs Art Museum Artists Council Juried show: Best of Show
2016 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris: Honorable Mention • Click Here for Link
2016 Photographer's Forum Annual Show: Finalist
2016 Rebecca Fine Arts Group Show
2015 Beverly Hills Art Show: 3rd Place in Photography
2015 IPA "Lucie Awards": Honorable Mention for 4 images
2015 New York Photography Festival "Last Picture Show": Finalist
2015 Photographer's Forum Annual Show: Finalist
2015 Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR "Mother Earth": juried show
2015 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris: 5 Honorable Mentions • Click Here for Link
2015 Center for Fine Art Photography Ft Collins, CO: Juried Landscape Exhibition
Publications
“Mod Mirage: The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho Mirage” Gibbs-Smith: released August 2018 www.modmirage.com
2020 Camerapixo “We Inspire” Volume 21
2019 Camerapixo “Patagonia”
2019 Dodho eMagazine feature on “Positive and Negative: Urban Abstract”
2019 Jugular Magazine- Salton Sea Feature Article
2019 R/M Magazine feature
2019 Camerapixo “Best of Architecture”
2019 Dodho eMagazine feature on Patagonia
2018 LensWork- Seeing in Sixes
2018 Dodho eMag-Feature article on "Salton Sea" series
2017 Camerapixo “We Inspire” Volume 14
2017 Blur Magazine #54 Featured Photographer
2017 Adore Noir Magazine #36 Featured Photographer
2016 Camerapixo - Cover & 4 images “We Inspire” Volume 12
2015 Camerapixo "Fine Art" Urban Nature issue
2015 Atomic Ranch Magazine: Commissioned article on Rancho Mirage Architecture
2015 "Desert Modernist": Cover photograph and contributing photographer
2014 Desert Magazine: First Place Landscape, First Runner up Architecture