I have been a sailor on a Coast Guard Ice Breaker working Search and Rescue in Alaska, college dropout, a 35-year wildland firefighter with CAL Fire, disaster management consultant, and now finally retired. My adult life has been spent working in nature, usually in conditions that most would consider chaos. I have been able to work and live in swamps, the Arctic ice pack, deserts, mountains, Southeast Asian jungles, oh and a in a city or two. 

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     Now that I am retired, I get to experience nature in a very different way and at a much slower pace.  Charley The Wandervan (that's him on the right) and I wander around a lot enjoying what John Steinbeck called "bumdom" and making photographs. 

     We humans have an amazing capacity to destroy that which is beautiful for what is, in reality, only a short-term and selfish gain.  So many times, I have been working at a disaster or traveling and feeling that I was a witness to the collapse of an eco-system and with it, a peoples' way of life.  Through, my photography, I hope to capture some images of these fragile areas and maybe inspire some action to value and preserve them.  

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     If you see me and Charley out on the road, stop in for a visit.  I always have a ready supply of coffee, tea, apple cider and hot chocolate!

                                                                                    Tom

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