Photographer, painter, and landscape designer based in Berkeley, CA.

In the shifting currents of time, politics, and human perspective, beauty—like art itself—is continually reinterpreted, reframed, or illuminated by the forces of its era. What we call beautiful is always subject to the gaze of its moment, yet certain qualities of beauty endure, resonating across centuries and cultures.

For nearly five decades, I have found my muse in the delicate interplay between nature’s beauty and humanity’s imprint—whether benevolent, malevolent, or benign. It is where the dazzling and resplendent give way to imperfection, and in the inexorable march toward senescence, that our own fragility and essence come into focus.

Through a lifelong dedication to artistic creation—whether through the lens, painting, or garden design—I seek to capture the enduring allure that persists within life’s ever-changing canvas. In a world fraught with uncertainty, my work aspires to reveal glimpses of hope and resilience, holding beauty close as both a source of inspiration and a steady guide.

Robert Adams wrote:

“..the word beauty is in practice unavoidable. Its very centrality accounts, in fact, for my decision to photograph. There appeared a quality — Beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it — in certain photographs and paintings that opened my eyes, and I was compelled to learn to live with the vocabulary of this new sight, though for many years I still found it embarrassing to use the word Beauty, even while believing in it.”