About

2003 – Present
Freelance Nature and Wildlife Photographer, Artist, and Set Painter – Ridgecrest, CA

2019 – Group Gallery show “ARTifacts”
Maturango Museum – Ridgecrest, CA

2018 – Solo Art Exhibit “Arid Points”
Maturango Museum – Ridgecrest, CA

Wedding and Portrait Photographer
2007 to 2009

Gallery Owner
2007-2008 WildMaven Gallery – Belfair, WA
Owner of an artist co-op featuring over 30 local artists. Became profitable in the first year, but lost the lease when the owner of the building decided to remodel for another business venture.

Digital Illustrator Bellaonline
Designed navigation buttons which were used for over a decade.

Personal Project “Through Their Eyes”
2002 to 2002 – multimedia project showcasing multiple cancer patient experiences (sketches, short stories, and photographs)

Commissioned Artist
New York, NY
2002 to 2002 – New York auction commissioned work to raise money for breast cancer awareness.

Freelance Illustrator for The Seattle Aquarium
1991 to 1994 – pen and ink illustrations for the aquarium, often with deadlines as short as an hour. Given advanced access to new exhibits and animals in order to promote their arrivals.

Editor and Illustrator
1993- Pacific Gallery Artists – Tacoma, WA

Editor and Illustrator
1992 – South Region Radiology – Tacoma, WA

Publications:

Community Cloud Atlas
2014 – Circumzenithal arc photograph

Sky and Telescope Magazine
2013 – Comet Lovejoy photograph

Fox News, ABC News, Good Morning America
2012 – Meteor shower photograph

Televised meteor shower photograph

Space.com
2012 – Leonid Meteor shower photograph

The Corvid Crier – Washington Ornithological Society
2007 – Multiple bird photographs

Sky and Telescope Magazine
2007 – Aurigid Meteor photograph