Welcome. I hope you enjoy my photography, featuring images from Idaho, La Jolla, San Diego, Nevada., and southern Utah. The portfolio includes  color and black and white images of the high desert American West, the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, and  the coastal areas of San Diego and Oregon. 

My subjects are water, sky,  people,  rocks, and unusual buildings -- anything that captures light and reflects it back to the creative imagination.  Making pictures is not so much about  what's "there," than about what's inside of the artist and the viewer, sharing some intangible insight together through the medium of light.  

In other words, this is not rocket science.  One does not engineer a good picture. That's not to say that the modern technology of taking pictures and developing them isn't important.  After working with film for many years, not particularly enthused with actual darkrooms, I am now in love with the digital camera and the virtual darkroom. 

While Ansel Adams labored in the actual darkroom, the modern photographer  accomplishes the same results laboring on a computer. While Adams used chemistry to create his wonderful and rich tones of black and white, the modern phographer uses computer software. 

In my view, the camera and lens simply allow us to  gather reality's raw material necessary for making good pictures. Ultimately,  creating  good pictures is the result of the beautiful chemistry of reality, the eye's imagination, and the picture's birthplace that we call the darkroom -- be it an actual one or a virtual one.  -- Peter Sacks, January 2010.