Photography, for me, has always been about more than capturing an image — it's about capturing a story. Before I retired and began devoting more of my time to photography, I was a psychotherapist, listening to my client’s life stories. I loved my work then and I love my work now. Looking for stories is what I have always done. My photography takes me around the world, from repeated safaris across Africa — where I've spent countless hours photographing wildlife in their natural habitat — to the quiet, golden landscapes surrounding my home in California. Each image begins in the field, but its final form comes later, in post-processing, where I use editing software to reshape the photograph into something that feels closer to what I felt when I was there with my camera. Sometimes I edit my images into painting or drawing-like works of art. Other times, I post-process them more traditionally, as they appeared in the field.