About This Site

Jesus of Nazareth said, "Store up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where the thief does not break in and the moth does not corrupt, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Matt 6:19-21). He also said that the eye is the light of the soul and reveals the darkness or light within each of us (Matt 6:22). Truer words have seldom been spoken. The eye captures and reveals much about our hearts and where our treasures are truly at - what we see in our world is a reflection of the good and evil that lives within us. This is why photography is such a powerful medium.

Having been raised with an intimate connection to creation, I've come to see the hand of God in its every detail - in deserted, wild open spaces I've hiked into, in the power I've felt in the large salmon and steelhead I've caught over the years, in the fierceness of the lions and leopards I've encountered in Sub-Saharan Africa. These things and more speak to me of the grace that has been bestowed on me by God - the treasures that fill my own eyes. My images ar meant to capture these treasures and the impact they have had on me to the glory of God. In that spirit, I offer this site with my gallery of images. These images are both the statement of my own gratitude, and a wake-up call. The natural world is both beautiful and fragile - it has its limits which cannot be compromised any more than those of its maker can be, and there are emotional, spiritual and physical consequences for being glib about them. These images, and this site, are offered in the hope that you will take as much joy from them as I had in finding them and realizing the vision they represent. They are also offered in the hope that they will move all who see them to give glory to the one who created the natural world and each of us in His image, and make a covenant to protect it for future generations. Enjoy, and thanks for visiting my site!

User's Guide

• The site has been tested for compliance with the following environments,
  Windows 95/98/2000/XP:   Internet Explorer 5.5+, Firefox 2+, Opera 7.0+, Netscape 6+
  
  Mac OS 9.x/10:   Firefox 2+, Netscape 6+, Safari
  It should also work fine with any W3C compliant browsers, including those based on recent versions of Mozilla or Gecko engines. Those of you with older browsers (e.g. IE 4.x, Netscape 4.x, or earlier, or IE 5.2 on Mac OS) will have difficulties. Alas, this is unavoidable. The Internet has progressed to where these older browsers are no longer being supported--either by their manufacturers or the World Wide Web Commision (W3C)--and it is no longer practical for me to support them in development. Fortunately, newer browsers are readily available for all platforms and can be downloaded and installed for free. If you are using Windows 95/98/ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, IE 5.0 or higher is native to your operating system and no further upgrade is necessary. Should you need to upgrade, the latest versions of these browsers for all platforms can be downloaded and installed for free from the following locations,

  Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+ (Recommended)
  
  Firefox 2+ (Recommended) Netscape Navigator 6+ and higher< Opera 7.x and higher

  For those who do not wish to use Internet Explorer I recommend downloading and installing Firefox. It's fully W3C compliant and renders sites beautifully on nearly every personal computing system. It's also robust, fast, and on Macs it's far less fussy and and more feature-rich than Safari.
  
  To find out what browser version you are running, go to Help > About Internet Explorer on your top toolbar (in IE) or Help > About Netscape (in Netscape).
• Unix Users:   In the past many of you have had to contend with being limited to Netscape 4.x and older Mozilla browsers. Thankfully, this is no longer the case. Recent versions of Netscape and Opera are now available for Unix environments as follows,

  FireFox 2+:   Linux
  
  Netscape 7.0:   Linux, AIX
  
  Opera 6.12:   Linux, Solaris, BSD

  As of this writing I have not tested my site on these platforms. But later versions of Opera and Netscape are W3C compliant, and upgrading your browser to one of them should make my site fully usable for your platform.
• Javascript needs to be enabled for some of the site's funtionality to work properly. For newer browsers running under their default settings this should not be an issue. But if you are uding an older browser, or if you have disabled script access, you will need to re-enable it for these features to work. This can be done in Internet Explorer 5+ under Tools > Internet Option > Security.
• The site is best viewed at screen resolutions of 768x1024 or higher (on newer computers I recommend 1280x1024). Setting your screen resolution accordingly should provide the best visual presentation for most monitors. You can set this in the Windows environment by going to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display, and then going to the Settings tab.
• Gallery pages are populated with thumbnails which can be clicked to open a larger image in a new window. My images may be displayed by their subject (e.g. landscapes, wildlife, etc.), the region where they were taken, or the medium used (e.g. color, black & white, infrared or digital). These options are available from the flyout menus under each section in the left navigation bar. The default display for each category returns all of my images. The Search page also allows for images to be searched by date, keyword, camera platform, or full text from titles and comments. The Search takes any string of characters so you only need part of any word to return results. If you encounter any broken links or other problems with this site please contact me.