Botanicals, my passion, reflect our place in the world, which is both amazing in the moment and changing, decaying all the time. I am constantly striving to achieve what Buddhists call beginner’s mind; trying to be present in each moment of a flower's life. 

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I often work with focus stacking, which involves taking multiple images (as many as 500) of a bloom, then using specialized software to create one in-focus image. While this is a time-consuming process, the result is a picture where you can see deeply into the flower, all of which is in focus.  There is much discussion of whether a high aperture can achieve the same effect; that has not always been my experience.

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My aim is to allow the viewer to get lost in each image, making it a place away from all distraction.  I intend my photographs to be large, such as 4 ft x 4 ft or 4 ft x 6 ft.  Each is an invitation to stop, look closely, and become immersed in the light, shapes, volume, depth, colors and lines that are often missed, but that are still in plain sight.​