I have been pointing a camera at people and things since I was six years old. Some of the early subjects were my sister, the barn cats and kittens, our horses, pigs and cornfields on the farm in Illinois. As the decades passed those are still some of my favorite subjects. For the past several years I have been fortunate to live in Washington, D.C., and Southern Maryland while at the same time traveling to wonderful places in the US and beyond. One of my favorite corners of the world is the tiny high desert town of Elko, in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. I return there every January for the Cowboy Poetry Gathering which attracts over 8,000 musicians, artists, poets and ranch families from throughout the Western US and Canada. That world has become a central focus of my photography. Recently, I decided to compare the similarities between the cowboys and ranchers of the West with the horse farms and riders around Maryland, in the Wide Open Spaces show at CalVART in March 2008. There is much common ground. This exhibit at CalvART is my first show representing a taste of these two worlds, which have vast differences and major similarities.
(With apologies to Dr. Seuss)
From There to Here and Here to There
Fantastic Things Are Everywhere
And On the Bay, I dare to Say,
We Have Special Things Every Day
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