I am an independent, seasoned still photographer and videographer. I work primarily for corporate marketing groups, though my clients also include colleges, universities, and museums.

I’m a veteran contributor to marketing programs ranging from new product launches to press conferences, from annual reports to catalogs, from TV spots to print ad campaigns.

During the 1980s, after film school at Boston University, I learned this profession as a staff photographer at Wang Laboratories. Remember them? Wang Labs was the Google of the 80s — it was the hot growth company. It was what people now call a multitasking environment. You learned to produce ready-for-prime-time images. You turned them out by the thousands. You did it under heavy deadline pressure, and you never lost your cool.

It’s partly because of those seven years at Wang that I am equally comfortable working in the boardroom or on the factory floor. I put both my human subjects and my art directors at ease.

My track record includes countless individual images and over a thousand hours of videotape, shot in forty-two of our fifty states and 26 countries around the world.

That’s the background. Now, as a mature cameraman, I believe I know how to consistently make images that create excitement.

My subject is not simply the lab technician or the farmer in the field — it’s the light. I photograph the light. If the light’s not available, I create it, on location or in my studio.

My compositions are not merely focused on the subject, they’re focused on the significance of the shot.

As a guerrilla photographer, you learn to capture moments in time. You do it in ways that viewers will not forget.

My clients expect me to do that and still be a laid-back guy. I try not to disappoint.

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