Growing up in the Hawaiian Islands and on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, I have long held an affinity for the appreciation of the natural world. My passion for observing and photographing plants has taken me over the entirety of North America from the Yukon to the Yucatan as well as Asia and Central America. In 1997 I joined the famous Heronswood Nursery where for seven years I worked as Propagator and produced plants for introduction to gardens worldwide. Then, over the course of four years beginning in 2003, I was Manager at Cistus Nursery in Portland, Oregon- a major influence amongst a new vanguard in Western horticulture. This time working with two of the most preeminent and immense plant collections in the country, in addition to the continuing quest to contend with plants in their native habitat, led in 2007 to my founding of the botanical image resourcing company PhytoPhoto.

The opportunity to become acquainted with a truly incredible diversity of plant material over a vast range of environments coupled with a passion for finding the essential elements of each is culminated in PhytoPhoto. The work of photographing the plant world has a foot in many disciplines, at once an artist, botanist, photographer, and increasingly, a skilled technician of both the ever-changing nomenclature and the even more mercurial tools of imaging. Like Kermit said, "It ain't easy being green".

All of the images currently available via PhytoPhoto are painstakingly identified using the most current accepted nomenclature. Often, this is a more time consuming process than that spent creating the photos. This system of accessioning creates an archive that is searchable, allowing me to quickly cater to individuals, publications, institutions and companies in need of accurate botanical images.

My work has appeared in such publications as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Country Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Organic Gardening, The American Gardener, Canadian Gardening, Sunset, Martha Stewart Living, Garden Gate, Gardening How-To, NW Home and Garden Magazine, Pacific Horticulture, Homes+Gardens Northwest, Portland Spaces, Washington Trails, Herbolaria de Chiapas,The Oregonian and Hardy Plant Society of Oregon Bulletin. PhytoPhoto images have also been featured in the nursery catalogs of Heronswood, High Country Gardens, Plants Delights, Terra Nova and others. Books include the excellent guide Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest and Black Plants, both from Timber Press, New Trees from Kew Press, the Royal Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and the Sunset Western Garden Book of Edibles. Articles on plant exploring can be seen at Planetplant and Gardening Gone Wild.