For more than four decades, I have documented the historic live oaks of Louisiana, the oak landscapes of California, and the landscapes of the American Southwest. I am best known for black-and-white and color tree portraits of Louisiana that explore the beauty, history, and cultural significance of the state's oldest and historically significant live oaks.

I was introduced to black-and-white photography while studying photojournalism in college and later refined my craft as both a student and workshop assistant with the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. My early vision was shaped by the large-format tradition of Group f/64 photographers, whose emphasis on craftsmanship and expressive light continues to influence my work. 

Across my career, I've learned that every old oak has a story to tell. My photographs seek not only to record these remarkable trees, but also to preserve their beauty, history, and place in the cultural landscape of Louisiana for future generations. What began as an interest in photographing landscapes gradually became a lifelong effort to document the oldest living witnesses to Louisiana's history.

My photographs and writings about live oak trees have appeared in numerous publications such as American Forests, Louisiana Life, and Country Roads magazines, the Journal of the International Oak Society, the Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate, Cultural Vistas (publication of the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities), Under the Oaks magazine (the alumni publication of Newcomb College of Arts), the Calumet Fine-Art newsletter, Creation Spirituality magazine, and books like Live Oak Lore by Ethelyn Orso, Spiritual Literacy by Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, Folklife in Louisiana through Photography by Frank DeCaro, and the Art of the State, Louisiana, by Abrams Books.

My prints are contained in a variety of corporate and private collections across the country as well as the public collections of the Louisiana Folklife Museum, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

A sampling of my continuing work is contained in six books:

• Heartwood, Meditations on Southern Oaks, published by Bulfinch/Little Brown Press in 1998;
• Across Golden Hills – Meditations on California Oaks in 2013;
• Laura Plantation – Images and Impressions, published in 2017 by The Zoe Company;
• Quercus Louisiana – the Splendid Live Oaks of Louisiana, self-published in 2019; and,
• Oak Alley Plantation, Portrait of a Southern Icon, published by Oak Alley Plantation Restaurant and Inn in 2019.
• Return to Heartwood, A Search for the Heart of Live Oak Country, 2022.