About

To make a very long story short, I lived in and traveled all over California and a few parts beyond and like both the city and the country. I enjoy exploring old mines and ghost towns, hiking in the mountains and forests, but also savoring the sights and sounds of the big city, like strolling the Embarcadero here in my home of San Diego enjoying a good time with friends outside along the water of the bay while watching the lights come on in the skyline. When I see a great scene I just feel I must capture it and share it with others.

As California, particularly Southern California, gets more and more developed and populated, with more and more open space and farmland getting paved over, it will be crucial to try to preserve some of that open space and farmland, if not for the economic values or for the benefits to wildlife and the environment, then for our own selfish needs, the needs of us humans to be able to stretch out our arms, breathe fresh air, and reconnect with and meditate in nature, in an environment that is not man made and fabricated. We are also explorers by nature and need open frontiers left to discover.

I grew up mostly in Southern California, that region blessed with that natural, rural, and urban beauty, but constantly under siege by that rapid population growth and resulting urban and suburban sprawl, and I have witnessed too much of that open space and farmland I enjoyed as a kid paved over. While I know that some "progress" is good and that we can't live in the past forever, there is a way we can accommodate population growth while conserving our last remaining rural and natural spaces and heritage in California and places beyond.

Me at my favorite hiking and photography spot overlooking a beautiful and peaceful rural area in Banning that will all soon be a huge master-planned housing community known as "Rancho San Gorgonio." Riverside County, CA.

What was once one of the last remaining rural areas in Orange County is now yet another victim of suburban sprawl, slowly nudging out long-time residents who enjoyed and worked off of its more open and equestrian-friendly history & tradition. And was under construction even during a severe & historic drought. Yorba Linda, CA.

Along those lines, other than sharing incredible views I witness and making a profit off of the sell of my photos, I am also using my photography to be a visual record for posterity of those natural and rural areas that are under threat of development, to encourage others to get involved in natural and farmland conservation, and promise to use a percentage of all and any sales toward supporting worthwhile organizations involved in that cause, including but not limited to The Nature Conservancy in California,The Wildlands Conservancy, American Farmland Trust/California Office, and many others.

Thank you, enjoy my pics, but most importantly, help conserve as much open and rural spaces as we can in California and beyond.

For my portfolio, go here.