Stephen lost interest in art at early age when he found out that crayons didn’t taste too good.  After forty-six years as an attorney, those crayons don’t seem so bad anymore.

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A gift subscription to National Geographic from a great aunt opened his eyes to a world beyond the streets of Brooklyn, where he grew up.  It opened his eyes to the power and beauty of photography. 

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An avid backpacker and outdoors person, Stephen began taking pictures in an effort to bring the beauty of the mountains back to his city home.

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An award winning nature photographer, Stephen is a self-taught photographer. He has lived in Alaska, Micronesia, and traveled the world camera in hand. He moved to Maui in 1997.  He now lives in the shadow of Haleakala, taking most of his pictures upcountry. 

 

He chases early morning light and late glow of the day, looking for that beauty in the commonplace, or discovering a transcending quality in objects that seem ordinary, that brief, hidden or overlooked moment of texture and color that are part of the Maui rainbow. He remains inspired by Adams, Steichen, Wolfe, O'Keefe and Japanese woodblock images.