I have photographed the landscape in Louisiana, California, and the Southwest for more than four decades. I'm most known for my black-and-white and color "tree portraits" of live oak trees in Louisiana. In 2021, in the depths of the pandemic and after a year of 5 major hurricanes sweeping through south Louisiana, I moved to rural northern New Mexico.
I am largely self-taught as an artist. I was introduced to black-and-white photography through a photojournalism course in college. I received more structured training as a student and assistant at various workshops given by the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. My early photographic work was largely influenced by the f-64 Group of large format black-and-white photographers of California.
My writings and photographs about live oak trees have appeared in numerous publications such as American Forests, Louisiana Life, and Country Roads magazines, the Journal of the International Oak Society, the Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate, Cultural Vistas (publication of the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities), Under the Oaks magazine (the alumni publication of Newcomb College of Arts), the Calumet Fine-Art newsletter, Creation Spirituality magazine, and books like Live Oak Lore by Ethelyn Orso, Spiritual Literacy by Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, Folklife in Louisiana through Photography by Frank DeCaro, and the Art of the State, Louisiana, by Abrams Books.
My prints are contained in a variety of corporate and private collections across the country as well as the public collections of the Louisiana Folklife Museum, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
A sampling of my continuing work is contained in six books:
• Heartwood, Meditations on Southern Oaks, published by Bulfinch/Little Brown Press in 1998;
• Heartwood, Further Meditations on Oaks, by Blue Oak Press in 2009;
• Across Golden Hills – Meditations on California Oaks in 2013;
• Laura Plantation – Images and Impressions, published in 2017 by The Zoe Company;
• Quercus Louisiana – the Splendid Live Oaks of Louisiana, self-published in 2019; and,
• Oak Alley Plantation, Portrait of a Southern Icon, published by Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant and Inn in 2019.
• Return to Heartwood, A Search for the Heart of Live Oak Country, 2022.
I have photographed the landscape in Louisiana, California, and the Southwest for more than four decades. I'm most known for my black-and-white and color "tree portraits" of live oak trees in Louisiana. In 2021, in the depths of the pandemic and after a year of 5 major hurricanes sweeping through south Louisiana, I moved to rural northern New Mexico.
I am largely self-taught as an artist. I was introduced to black-and-white photography through a photojournalism course in college. I received more structured training as a student and assistant at various workshops given by the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. My early photographic work was largely influenced by the f-64 Group of large format black-and-white photographers of California.
My writings and photographs about live oak trees have appeared in numerous publications such as American Forests, Louisiana Life, and Country Roads magazines, the Journal of the International Oak Society, the Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate, Cultural Vistas (publication of the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities), Under the Oaks magazine (the alumni publication of Newcomb College of Arts), the Calumet Fine-Art newsletter, Creation Spirituality magazine, and books like Live Oak Lore by Ethelyn Orso, Spiritual Literacy by Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, Folklife in Louisiana through Photography by Frank DeCaro, and the Art of the State, Louisiana, by Abrams Books.
My prints are contained in a variety of corporate and private collections across the country as well as the public collections of the Louisiana Folklife Museum, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
A sampling of my continuing work is contained in six books:
• Heartwood, Meditations on Southern Oaks, published by Bulfinch/Little Brown Press in 1998;
• Heartwood, Further Meditations on Oaks, by Blue Oak Press in 2009;
• Across Golden Hills – Meditations on California Oaks in 2013;
• Laura Plantation – Images and Impressions, published in 2017 by The Zoe Company;
• Quercus Louisiana – the Splendid Live Oaks of Louisiana, self-published in 2019; and,
• Oak Alley Plantation, Portrait of a Southern Icon, published by Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant and Inn in 2019.
• Return to Heartwood, A Search for the Heart of Live Oak Country, 2022.