or years Madison Square Garden was host to an annual Rodeo event. As a child more accustomed to the busses, taxis and the skyscrapers of New York City, the horses, bull riders and cowboys within a three-block radius of Broadway held a much greater fascination. Until age fourteen, the furthest West I’d been was Pittsburgh, but the seeds had been sown. It was not surprising that upon my first visit to a ranch in Wyoming, I fell in love with the land, the way of life…and even a cowboy or two.

I eventually married (not a cowboy), and had three wonderful children, but my heart was always somewhere out west. After receiving my Bachelor of Fine Art from Manhattanville College, I pursued photography, and studied at the Maine Photographic Workshop and at the International Center of Photography, in New York City. After frequent visits to ranches over the years, in 1989 we decided to purchase land on the eastern side of the Crazy Mountains, in Wilsall, Montana where I truly felt at home, and free to endlessly explore and photograph the Montana landscape.

In 1990 I was asked to photograph a kids’ rodeo event - riding sheep. I really enjoyed the action and the following year I photographed my first small town rodeo in Wilsall (population 331). For the next decade I would spend almost three months of the year shooting Montana rodeos. With my Chevy pickup, camera and dog, I became a "Rodeo Roadie”. My passion had become a project which evolved into "Montana Hometown Rodeo".

I have been fortunate enough to have my work shown in exhibitions throughout the East coast, as well as in Montana and Japan. I was a featured artist at The Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana in 2000, and my work has been published in “Big Sky Journal,” and Falcon Press’ “Montana Century – 100 Years in Pictures & Words.” Several authors have used my landscape images as book covers.

In fact, I gathered so much material while travelling around the state, that a second book, tentatively entitled “Montana Land and Sky” is in the works.

Montana continues to seduce me visually, with its rapidly changing weather, its landscapes that range from forested mountains to rock cliffs, from prairie to badlands, to lush fields. The people of Montana are truly special to me. They are welcoming and generous, hard-working and fun-loving. The characteristic I most admire, however is their gratitude for and appreciation of the majestic and incredibly beautiful place they call home.

View my resume here.