I grew up in the north woods. In high school, I fantasized about heading down some northern mountain valley to become a mountain man living off the land. I never became a mountain man. Instead, I naïvely decided to become a wildlife photographer. After hunting with a rifle, I discovered, with my camera, I could hike into the woods and shoot the same animals over and over; that was so much more satisfying.

During the decade of the 1980’s, I traveled worldwide doing fourteen photographic assignments for the National Geographic Society. I’ve been to the African plains, the equatorial rainforest of Costa Rica, the outback of Australia and completely across North America—from eastern Canada’s arctic, throughout Alaska and south into most of the United States.

My early photography took various directions. It began with two years of 16mm short nature films for Sesame Street. From there, I moved into still photography, ultimately touring with the Rolling Stones rock group as publicity photographer and also doing fashion photography for Vogue and Cosmopolitan.

A variety of natural history assignments from Time-Life as well as Audubon and National Wildlife magazines enabled me to pursue my love of wilderness and large mammals. I’ve worked as publicity photographer for the Disney movie, Never Cry Wolf, spent over two years following mountain lions for German GEO magazine and recorded the continuing demise of African wildlife for Newsweek.

My photographs have appeared in myriad advertisements for liquors, fashion products, environmental companies and been published in all major natural history publications worldwide. In addition, I have received both the Picture of the Year and the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards four times.

My latest projects consist of five books. The first book, titled Diary of an Arctic Year, was written and photographed by me, and was released by Lorraine Greey Books of Toronto, Canada in September 1991; it covered my travels from Greenland across Canada and Alaska out toward Russia. My second book, Preserving Eden: The Nature Conservancy, was published by Abrams of New York in May, 1992, and is my photographic coverage of The Nature Conservancy conservation organization’s natural preserves.

My third book: True North: Diary of a North Country Year —is a companion volume to “Arctic Year” and covers the Northern Forest of North America. This book was published in October, 1992 by NorthWord Press of Minocqua, Wisconsin.

My latest book, Way of the Whitetail was also published by NorthWord Press in autumn 1994. This book celebrates the whitetail deer in all seasons across North America.

I have just finished my fifth book about African wildlife and doing both phtotography and text. This book is scheduled for publication in 1998. All these books are large format, “coffee table” books.

Also, for the past nine years, individual calendars of my photography have been published annually by Pomegranate and NorthWord Press on North Woods Wildlife, North American Wildlife, Red Fox Country, True North: Images from the Northern Forest and Whitetail Country.

During the winter of 1996 – 1997, I embarked on another phase of creativity with the onset of both pencil sketching and oil painting. It is my intention to give priority to my drawing and oil painting along with mixing less intense personal photography projects.