Welcome to Rearview Muse!

I love automobiles. I especially love the ones from decades past – the big ones. The ones with chrome. The ones with patina. The ones that smell like gasoline, oil and cold car seats on a winter morning.

My love of the automobile started at a very early age. Here’s the unaltered, untouched proof right out of the baby photo album:

I also love photography. I love film photography and digital photography. I love prints from film carefully crafted in a darkroom. I love the digital transformation of pixels into images.

I love cars. I love photography. It’s only natural that I combined the two passions.

Rearview Muse is the journey of 30 years of photography and essays about the places and things I’ve experienced. I discovered the magic of silver halides converting to metallic silver to create an image in a darkroom in 1994. Through the years I continued to shoot and evolve as an award-winning photographer and writer, framing untold thousands of shots and showing and selling commissioned work exclusively to clients. In 2024 I finally decided to take my gallery and 30 years of award-winning travel photography, writing and artwork online. Join me on my journeys and enjoy automobiles and scenery I’ve encountered along the way. I’ll share things that catch my eye and post my shoots and editing processes on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Rearview Muse is a work in progress. Thank you for looking. Drop a comment to introduce yourself. Maybe we’ll meet on the road somewhere …

Musician ©1994 – This low-res image is the last survivor of a handful of my first darkroom prints from the early 1990s.

My first cruise-in with the 1952 Ford Courier Sedan Delivery.