Nature nominee

Devil's Glen is the name of a gorge in Weston, Connecticut, USA, through which the Saugatuck River runs as it comes down from the nearby Saugatuck Reservoir. It is only about a fifth of a mile long, but, to me, it has been like Cleopatra in Shakespeare's description: "age cannot wither her, not custom stale her infinite variety." The place has been the subject of thousands of my photographs for almost fifteen years, it was the subject of a published and anthologized poem of mine, a place where my life was once saved by an undeniable miracle. It was the lab in which I learned to make photographs in difficult, contrasty light and sometimes-perilous conditions. In addition to capturing the changing wonders of the Glen, which ends in a bend, drop, and deep cauldron of water, I have sought to capture the varieties and mysteries of life, going beyond the clichés of nature photography, as I hope that the submitted photos from that portfolio will demonstrate.

Sloan Scholar for the Humanities at the University of Michigan; received MFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Received various Prizes, Honorable Mentions, or Prize Nominations in the international Fine Art Photography Awards (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019); International Photography Awards (2023, 2022, 2015); International COLOR Awards (2023, 2022, 2021); reFocus Color Photography Awards (2023); reFocus World Photo Annual Awards (2023); and Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards (2023). Work selected (multiple times each) for numerous juried exhibitions of the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), Praxis Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR), The Atlanta Photography Group Gallery (Atlanta, GA), A Smith Gallery (TX), and other venues. Photographs published in F-Stop Magazine, The Photo Review (Annual International Competition issue); COLOR Magazine (Merit Award), Shadow & Light Magazine, and other publications.