As a young kid I loved going to the dentist because the waiting room always had a current issue of Arizona Highways Magazine. I would take in those amazing outdoor nature photographs with intense scrutiny. My eye would float all over each image with awe. Those desert landscapes made the ordinary extraordinary. One day in the dentist’s office I saw my first issue of National Geographic. I was mesmerized over and over again. From Antarctica to the Saharan desert, I was drawn into those pages with intense emotions. I wanted to be there, see those sights and meet those people. The dentist’s waiting room is where my passion for photography started.
It wasn’t until college that I purchased my first camera and began to capture my world. Once I entered my postgraduate physiotherapy training in Perth, Western Australia, I jumped into the photography in a big way. My Canon DSLR captured amazing sights in Western Australia. One trip took me to the Nambung National Park where we were tent camping in a winter storm. I captured double rainbows, clouds, sand, and ocean in the background with the amazing sandstone spires in the foreground (see photo). This photo won first prize in a photo contest sponsored by the drug company Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. With a bit of success as motivator, I continued to dabble in photography in my thirties and forties however, a dynamic career in physical therapy and raising a family took precedence.
In 2001 I opened Body Logic Physical Therapy, my private practice in Grass Valley, California. I decorated the walls with amazing landscape photography from my photographer friend, Jay Schuff. Jay inspired me to get back out there and start taking my own images.
In 2017, Larry Lefman, a member of the Nevada County Camera Club (NCCC) came in to my clinic for treatment and he inspired me to join. The timing was perfect. I attended my first meeting in August 2017 and haven’t looked back.
The friendliness, support, and experience from the members of the camera club have been nothing short of exemplary. I owe every bit of success that I am currently achieving from the many members of the Nevada County Camera Club.
I hope you enjoy my photography, that it puts a smile on your face, like my time in that dentist’s waiting room so many years ago. That is one of the reasons that I do this. I love putting a smile on a person’s face.
As a physical therapist (PT) I have a passion to help people get out of pain. Seeing people smile when they see my images in my clinic has given me the motivation to continue capturing moments in the world that will put a smile on their face.
Enjoy.
