Mark is an artist with cameras, first as a serious amateur since 1991, and a professional since 2006.  He combines passion, creativity and technical skill to make artistic images for client and personal projects. Mark is winding down his client work and is now an aspiring amateur photographer, meaning it's just about his passion for creating personally artful images.

Mark creates fine-art images that celebrate nature, people and culture.  Following in a long tradition of fine-art photographers, he uses both the camera and the darkroom to make creative images.  He tends to photograph whatever, he's curious about, and he's curious about a lot things.  Thus, his subjects range across a wide spectrum, and tend to center around themes more than places and things.  He works in both color and black & white, choosing one or the other depending on which best fits his vision and emotion.

His photographic process starts with first seeing, then recording images with the camera.  As in traditional fine-art photography, these digital "negatives" serve as starting points for creative image making in the darkroom.  But his darkroom is digital, not chemical, which enables him to go beyond the traditional and exploit the creative power of digital technology to make creative images.

Sometimes these reflect what was seen.  More often, what was seen serves as a starting point to create an image influenced by his imagination and feelings. Once finalized in the digital darkroom, images are printed on archival, fine-art papers with pigments inks to make the final artwork, or optimized for digital publication on various devices.

Mark also shares his passion for photography by helping other photographers achieve their creative potential.  In conjunction with several colleagues, Mark offers photography workshops and classes focused on the art of photography.  He also offers one-to-one coaching in the field and digital darkroom, ongoing mentoring, and image reviews.

Mark is based in Anacortes, WA, and travels widely to make photographic art. He has created thousands of images ranging from portraits for families, location images for resorts and studio shots for artists. He's published coffee-table books on the the San Juan Islands, and a how-to book on outdoor and travel photography with Art Wolfe