Nature FIRST…
Through my photography, I hope to broaden awareness and inspire others to share my love for animals, our planet and its resources.
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
About Me
I am a full-time award-winning professional photographer, workshop leader, and artist living in New Jersey. I travel extensively presenting slide lectures and seminars and teaching photography and Photoshop. My workshops feature a variety of subjects including: avian, wildlife, flowers, landscape and creative photography.
In 2017 my image titled; Snow Globe was selected as the First Place "Winged Life" category winner for the BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition. My image of a Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin was selected as the "Birds" Category Winner in the prestigious Nature's Best 2016 Windland Smith Rice International Awards Competition. In 2015, I also won the Category for "Art in Nature" in the same Nature's Best Competition.
In 2010 and again in 2014, I received a Highly Honored award in the prestigious Windland Smith Rice Nature's Best competition. Also, in 2014 one of my images was selected as part of the People's Choice Awards Top 50 Images in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. Nowadays, I am judging international contests and I help my clients achieve their goals.
I’ve been published in the Wall Street Journal, Nature’s Best Magazine, Wild Galapagos magazine, GEO magazine, Powder magazine, The Open University of Israel textbooks, Wonders book by California Academy of Sciences and many more. My images have hung in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., The San Diego Natural History Museum. I’ve been featured in a Sierra Club Documentary for the preservation of the Florida Everglades and most recently, I have appeared in an episode of Xploration Awesome Planet for Fox 5 television. My latest accolades include two sets of Forever Stamps with the United States Postal Service.
One of my favorite new roles is to be apart of a judging panel for international photography competitions. If you would like me to be a judge for your competition, please get in touch.
Some of the competitions I have judged are:
Bird Photographer of the Year International Photography Competition
Bird ‘s as Art International Photography Competition
Wild Galapagos International Photography Competition
WildSojourns International Nature Awards Competition
Having two category winning images hang in the Smithsonian is certainly a highlight in my career. Having two Forever Stamp Collections with the US Postal Service is the cherry on top!
I have recently licensed 20 flower images to be used by the U.S. Postal Service for two different US postal stamp projects. The first project is a set of tulip stamps titled “Tulip Blossoms” which is part of their Forever Stamp Collection. This series will include ten of my tulip images, it is expected to come out in 2023. The second ten images are an assortment of close-up flower shots that will be featured as another Forever Stamp Collection.