My father was an outstanding portrait photographer in the Detroit area for over forty years. In high school and

into college I worked weekends framing and cutting mats at his photographic studio. While in college I shot

weddings for my dad when he was double booked. My passion for the game of lacrosse at Michigan State

University superseded my interest in photography. After playing the Native American game of lacrosse as an

undergraduate, I became the second varsity lacrosse coach at MSU. I relocated to sunny Florida where I helped start

south Florida' s first lacrosse teams, coaching at the University of Miami, and starting Fort Lauderdale's first lacrosse club.

Nearly every summer I have returned to the small town of Saugatuck on the shores of Lake Michigan,

and since Covid have lived there year round. The views I captured along the Lake Michigan coastline have provided

a gallery of images which I have built upon over the years. My renewed interest in photography occurred 25 years

ago at the exact time where the quality of digital imaging surpassed traditional film.

Decades ago, my father took a half-tone photo and retouched and added color by hand. Now people have a thousand

dollar cameras built into their cell phones - and in minutes of capturing photographs on those cell phones, the images

appear on their family's digital devices. What an incredible digital world we live in!