From my earliest childhood memory I have had a love for aviation, in my family we say it’s “in the genes”. Following in the footsteps of my father and grandfather, I began building plastic models when I was 6, flying R/C models at 14, and earned my private pilot certificate at 21. That love affair was cemented when my grandfather took me up for my first light airplane ride when I was 5 years old.

The first time I pointed a camera at an airplane was at Oshkosh 1982. I was 11 years old and my equipment of choice was a Kodak Disc Camera!! My first real camera was a Minolta Maxxum SLR which I purchased in 1990. The purchase of this camera and a 70-210mm lens was extremely timely, for a week later President George H.W. Bush visited my hometown. In 2005 I “went digital” with the purchase of a Canon Rebel XT, which was replaced by an XTi and XSi in 2008 & 2009 respectively.

It was this switch to digital photography that lead to the realization of a small childhood dream of having my photos published in an aviation magazine. Since early 2007 my photos have appeared in Combat Aircraft, World Airshow News, and Warbird Digest.

I have enjoyed photographing aircraft in a wide variety of locations, from AgCats over the corn fields of my hometown to Air Force One at Andrews AFB, from Delaware State Police helos at my home airport to ANG F-16s in the Middle East. I enjoy anything and everything that flies.

I live in Delaware with my wife and our dachshund. My full-time is job is an Emergency Medical Technician in an industrial plant, and one weekend a month, two-weeks a year I’m an F-16 bomb-loader with the District of Columbia Air National Guard based at Andrews AFB, Maryland.