:: About Trace ::
If I have any mantra, or guiding North Star in my creative life, it would be the phrase, “What If?” I’m intensly curious and want to answer that question as creatively and vitally as I can. I sometimes use big words, not to impress, but simply for fun. I also say, “dag-nabbit!” from time to time to the bemusement of others. Fact is I am a teacher, mentor and artist in the photographic arts. I begin with teacher first as that is what I have been doing since I started learning the language of photography in the analog wet darkroom in high school. As I learned from a gifted teacher, I helped other students who saw what I was doing and wanted to learn more. It was a natural role for me as I took to photography as if it were my native language.
I am an endless explorer and innovator using this language of drawing with light. I have experimented with innumerable techniques and ways of using light and processes to create unique, sometimes one-of-a-kind images. I believe the best teachers are ones who listen to their students and what their goals are and help them achieve those goals… and to even go beyond them. I bring a lifetime of deep knowledge of the art and craft of photography to students and those I choose to mentor, loving the collaborative nature of the way I teach. The best teachers are forever students themselves, perpetually learning, exploring, and discovering new ways to see. I consider myself a “planter of creative seeds” and helping those seeds grow in others is the privilege of a lifetime.
Honestly, the best way to know more about me is to read my well illustrated “Writings on the Walls”. There's lots of good stuff on there (this is a good link to start on), and you’re quite likely to learn somethings new about photography, art and the creative life… or so I’m told.
