I have always had an interest in the details within the landscape. The structure, color and design present inside flowers, grasses, leaves, and rocks show a world that is always worthwhile to stop and explore. By looking carefully, there are lots and lots of new compositions. One type of macro subject that I have explored over and over is dewdrops and water drops, to the point that some believe that I will not go out to photograph unless I can get wet. After a career in chemicals and marketing, I began to teach close-up photography at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL and to help out with the Fall Color Photography Workshop at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont. In addition to teaching Close-up photography at the Morton Arboretum, I teach a class on night-time photography in the winter and a class on the photography of dragonflies and butterflies in the summer. Over the past several years, I have been awarded several honors, including First Place at the 2010 Danada Nature Show and Second Place in the 2011 National Wildlife Society's annual photo contest. In addition, I have been a speaker at several Chicago-area camera clubs, talking about close-up and macro photography I recently became interested in focus stacking as a technique to improve Depth of Field. As a part of that, I have been exploring the use of High Dynamic Range (HDR) as a means of further improving the feel of flower and plant images. The combination of focus stacking and HDR can yield interesting compositions that have been mistaken for paintings.

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