My work has but a single subject: light.  Objects, locales, scales all change but the real subject is light.  Light that is warm and even at dawn and dusk, light that is yellowed and slanting and challenged by deep blue fill from the open sky, light that is softened and cooled by fog, rain and cloud, and light that is made bizarre by reflection off nearby colored surfaces or passing through leaves or smoke.  And I always looked for water---rain, fog, drizzle or objects underwater---to make things dark, lustrous, gleaming with enriched color.  Often the best light is no light at all, when the sky is totally covered, even raining, and trees and plants are soaked and so luminous light seems almost to come from within.      

                       redwoods in summer fog,                                 eroded rock, sunset, Weston                                           surf wash, Carmel

                       Del Norte County, 1962                                    Beach, 1978                                                                    beach, 1974

                      wave wash and                                                  Asilomar, 1974                                                                stonecrop succulents,                                  sea palms, 1975                                                                                                                                          Pt. Lobos, 1966