Of Mediterranean stock (Spanish, Italian and French), influenced by my father (civil engineer and artist) who was an amateur film maker (won the Amateur Cannes Festival in 1959), I was made aware of the importance of light from an early age and experimented with water colors and film photography. In my teenage years, I captured frames of clouds sculpted by the strong northwesterly wind of Provence, known as Mistral and made headshots of horses in B/W). Later, shaped both by my own cultural influences (impressionist masters like Cézanne and Monet), my student years in the Pacific Northwest coast of the US and various job adventures (choker setter in the Olympic Peninsula (WA) and salmon purse seining in the Puget Sound area (WA) and in Alaska), and the works of Morris Graves (mystical painter of nature), I developed a fascination for complex lighting and composition.

My primary focus is on trying to leverage the visual elements captured in the frame (shapes, colors, textures, shades, tonalities and patterns) to create images that reflect humankind’s interconnectedness with nature, the numinous or intangible dimensions of nature, to re-affirm our connection to that-which-is-beyond-us.

John Muir expressed it nicely: "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. "

My wife and partner in life, Micheline, shares my artistic vision and contributes to our portfolio of nature images.

I joined NPN to keep me on my toes, as the British say, and to make sure I don’t stray from the frame, although photography is also the art of dealing with the unknown, within the constraints of the frame.