I have been a licensed consulting civil engineer since 1987, and since 1993 a growing portion of my work has been with historic properties. My historic property work began with the water power system at Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts, went on to work on a historic 1830 sawmill and dam in Loudon, New Hampshire, a historic sawmill and dam in East Calais, Vermont, and through this year with Historic New England on several of their properties throughout New England. I usually take photographs as part of my documentation work in investigating the different engineering issues at the projects. A while back, I started taking more artistic photos of the buildings and surrounding areas at the projects, and at other historic sites that my family and I have visited for fun. I continue to photograph old buildings and historic sites, not only as part of the practical side of my career work, but now also as an artistic expression of historic preservation. As I evolve in my artistic work, I'm beginning to add some natural landscape images and some more abstract images.

The artwork begins as a digital photograph. I then form them to take on more of a look of oil and water color paintings and a creative mix of black and white and color.

I have exhibited at several of Historic New England’s Fine Arts and Crafts Festivals, several New Hampshire Preservation Alliances’ Old House & Barn Expo’s, Strawbery Banke Museum’s Fall Festival, and Greater Portland Landmarks’ Old House Trade Show. My photograph of the National Park Service’s Historic Saugus Iron Works won first prize in the National Park Service’s 2012 National Historic Landmarks Photography Contest (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalregister/galleries/72157630782042058/) and was featured on their 2013 Event Planner and Calender (http://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2013/01/11/shock-and-awe-3-inspiring-calendars-for-2013/). In 2014, one of my photographs (Stratton Place Colorful Row Houses) was chosen to be part of Greater Portland Landmarks’ 50th Anniversary Photography Exhibition “Images of Change: Greater Portland’s Cityscape Since 1960" (http://portlandlandmarks.org/50th-anniversary-celebration/images-of-change/). This photograph was also the featured photograph in an article on the Exhibition in the January 2014 issue of Maine Home + Design magazine.