I've had many gifts in my life ... but maybe the best one of all was the camera my father gave me when I was ten years old. A few years later a whole new world opened up for me when my parents built a darkroom for me in our basement. Under the safelights, smelling chemicals and listening to music, I lost all track of time watching my images come to life. Although I've been using Photoshop for many years, it was the countless hours in the darkroom that made me fall in love with photography.

I teach digital photography and Photoshop at UCLA Extension in Los Angeles, teach Digital Workshops and Travel Photography seminars at camera stores and have run Macintosh Graphics User Groups for many years. I am a beta tester for all kinds of software for Photoshop, do articles for digital imaging & photography magazines and am constantly looking for new techniques to improve my photography and my Photoshop skills. And though I haven't shot film since 2001, I realize that photography is more than talking about pixels. It is about vision, ideas and the willingness to allow your imagination to soar.

I love to shoot all kinds of photography but my main focus is on stock photography and I am represented by Corbis, Getty, Alamy and Superstock. Shooting stock has enabled me to explore new places all over the globe and venture out into the middle of nowhere looking for great photo opportunities.
I have had many photography awards, magazine covers and photo exhibitions, which is always motivating and special but I have realized something that I think is more important, at least for me; I love to shoot. It’s not a job to me. It’s what I love. Whether it’s 2am in Bangkok in the suffocating humidity or paragliding 5,000 feet up in the air, I just love having the camera with me. And after all these years to still have that love for photography ... well, I think that is the most important thing in the world to me.