Even though the photos you will see here span multiple decades of my career, it became easy to split my work into two basic categories once I had the realization that without exception, all of my Residential Landscape Photography was shot in or around my hometown of Dallas, Texas, where my family owns a PLANT NURSERY. Sometimes, it was literally in my own backyard; hence, the "NEAR."

There is so much magic and whimsy present in so many of the residential landscapes I photograph, that I often feel transported to another place and time. Inspired by nature, but tempered with residential functionality, these yards become poetry, filled with whispers of antiquity, nods to European and other even more ancient traditions, and an overall sense of spectacle and wonder.

In my Naturally Occurring Landscapes and World Photography, the "FAR," I am continually fascinated by the combination of natural beauty and human ingenuity. Cultures throughout world solve the exact same problems -- where to sleep, who to worship, what to eat -- in such vastly different and exquisitely beautiful ways, that life continuously surprises me. I marvel at our ability as a species to take what was given to us and improve upon it, bending nature to our individual specifications and needs, and creating a version of the world that exists not as it really is, but as we wish it could be.

No matter where you live, your yard can be whatever you dream up, your own personal version of whatever you consider paradise. You can borrow from different time periods and cultures the world over. As I photograph all different types of nature, both wild and domestic, and myriad cultures, both at home and abroad, I am reminded that when something is truly beautiful, its beauty can transcend the generational and geographic barriers of time and space and surpass all our societal differences.