I was born next to the Atlantic Ocean but grew up in a small seaside town in California. I took my first photographs with a Kodak film camera my father gave me for my sixth birthday. His enthusiasm for photography, and my parents’ shared interest in the arts, inspired me. Many of my childhood images were of the Pacific Ocean. For me, the characteristics and forms of water have always made it a compelling photographic subject.

In the years that followed, I often carried a camera with me. My academic background, professional career as a historian, and time spent in several regions of the United States and in countries overseas taught me to find beauty and meaning in small details. My experiences contributed to my fascination with the miniature worlds that abstract close-up (macro) photography can reveal. I began to concentrate on capturing overlooked details in ice and other forms of water during a particularly snowy winter in Maryland.

Soon thereafter, I began to share my early abstract efforts with family and friends and to apply to juried competitions. My abstract work is now held in private collections in several states and has been exhibited in juried photography venues in California, Florida, Texas, Manhattan, and Tokyo.

After returning to my hometown in coastal California, I pursued my interest in abstract macro water photography. As obsessed as I am with exploring hidden beauty in water, I also enjoy landscape, nature, travel, and sports photography, especially capturing horses and their riders and race cars and their drivers. I appreciate the opportunity to support community charity and other events and organizations and have been a volunteer photographer for the San Diego Writers Festival and, for several years, for the Coronado Fourth of July Parade Committee. Coronado has a thriving art community, and I was honored that my work was included in the Cultural Arts Commission program, “Celebrating Coronado Artists,” for 2023–2024, and in a Commission-sponsored gallery exhibition in 2024–2025, “A Foot Forward: Art Knows No Boundaries,” held in conjunction with the San Diego/Tijuana, Mexico region’s designation as the first joint World Design Capital.

I am a self-taught photographer, an avid pickleball player, and, with my husband, a 35-plus mile-a-week walker and a follower of national and international news. I am a graduate of San Diego State University (B.A., political science); the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A., history); and Britain’s University of Cambridge (Ph.D., history).