Growing up in the Hawaiian Islands and then the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, I have long held an affinity and deep appreciation for the natural world. My passion for observing and photographing great plants and great garden design 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 Heronswood Nursery in Kingston, Washington- 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- both major influences amongst the new vanguard in Western horticulture. This time working with two of the most preeminent and immense private plant collections in the country, in addition to the continuing quest to contend with plants in their native habitats, led in 2007 to my founding of the botanical image resource 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 modern digital imaging. Like Kermit sang, "It's not easy being green".

All of the images available via PhytoPhoto are carefully identified using the most current accepted nomenclature, as well as common names and descriptive information. This system of accessioning results in an archive that is easily searchable, allowing me to quickly cater to individuals, publications, institutions and companies in need of beautiful and accurately identified botanical images.

My work has appeared in such publications as Gardens Illustrated, Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Country Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Organic Gardening, The Garden, The American Gardener, Canadian Gardening, Sunset, Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times, Hobby Farm Home, Garden Gate, Gardening How-To, Urban Farm, NW Home and Garden Magazine, Edible Portland, Pacific Horticulture, Oregon Home, 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, Monrovia, 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, the Sunset Western Garden Book and WGB of Edibles plus several soon to be published including The Fruit Gardener's Bible.

Lecture and class lists are available upon request. Articles on plant exploring in Guatemala and the Painted Hills can be seen at Gardening Gone Wild.