Last year I took two trips to Portugal, one trip to the Lisbon area and one to the Porto area. I was struck by the vibes, and the music on the street it was just wonderful, walking the streets with all the stone designs at your feet. Traveling to the countryside the views of the countryside and just the wonderful natural surroundings. This wonderful experience was interpreted in a series of images, “Portugal, Work of Art” which incorporated all facets sharing the flavor of the country. The designs, the artwork, and the landscape, are combined in this impressionistic photographic essay.
Art became important to me at an early age with an interest in photography. I graduated in 1983 from the BFA Program in Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art which introduced him to the work and philosophies of influential artists: Irving Penn’s quality of light; Cartier-Bresson’s composition, use of space, and "the decisive moment”; Pete Turner, who felt that the transparency was not the end product, but just the beginning; and lastly Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of flowers and nature were a revelation, inspiring me to look closer at the hidden beauty of the natural world.
