I’ve been looking at things my whole life and only recently got serious about writing it down with a camera.

I’m a painter by trade — residential work, Maryland’s Eastern Shore — which means I spend a lot of time inside other people’s spaces, noticing what they’ve accumulated, how light moves through a room, what gets left on a counter. That kind of attention follows you home.

I shoot mostly film and digital, mostly black and white. A Nikon FE that’s older than some of my clients. A Ricoh GR that fits in a shirt pocket and goes everywhere. The Eastern Shore is my primary subject — Federalsburg, the Marshyhope Creek, the roads between small towns that most people drive through without stopping. I stop.

I came to photography the long way around. A Canonet in the late seventies. Years of looking without a camera. A slow return. I’m not in a hurry now, but I’m not waiting either.

This site is where the photographs live.

Paying attention on purpose.