"I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs," Winogrand.  Photography and cooking are very similar: you mix fresh ingredients with a recipe that you’ve found and tweaked to meet your tastes; there’s timing, temperature, technique, tools; put it all together in the right order and with a little flair and you have a sumptuous dish.  With any recipe there is usually one or two ingredients that make the difference.  With gumbo it’s the rue: no rue, no gumbo.
At this point in my photography, I know the mix of ingredients that I enjoy, I have the tools that I’m most comfortable with and a recipe; I’ve tweaked the recipe and will continue to do so based on where I am in my life, the environment and how I feel, the rue.  As my favorite photographer always says, “You have to shoot for the way it feels, not the way it looks,” Spelman. 
My viewfinder is a container that I fill with objects, both animate & inanimate, along with the intervening space.  I photograph to reveal to myself what the world feels like, photographed.


Groups Shows

•newspace gallery
Portland, OR
2004
•Tybie Davis Satin Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
2005
•Back Street Bistro
Santa Fe, NM
2005
•The Darkroom
Santa Fe, NM
2005
•Theaterwork
Santa Fe, NM
2005
•Boarders Café
Santa Fe, NM
2005

Photo Contests

•Rocky Mountain Regional Photo Exhibition
Colorado Springs, CO
2002, 2003, 2004
•NM Digital Photography
Albuquerque, NM
2004
•Paperwork In and Of Paper
Foundry Art Centre
St Charles, MO
2004
•15th Annual FACES of Women National Juried Exhibition
2005
•The Art of Photography
Lyceum Theatre Gallery
2008
•The Bed
Umbrella Arts
2009
•The Annual Manual
Santa Fe Reporter
2009
•Portraits
MplsPhotoCenter
2009


Publications

•The Sun Magazine
November 2009, Issue 407
•2010 Sustainable Santa Fe Guide
November 2009