Mark's Bio

Since starting in Black and White photography at the early age of 13, Mark has always made photography an important part of his life. He extensively traveled the world while serving in the United States Navy then moved on to working for Eastman Kodak in the early 1980's designing computer systems used to manufacture film and paper photography products. After retiring from Eastman Kodak in the mid 90’s, Mark started taking nature photographs full time in the upstate area of New York. In 1997 he moved to Murrells Inlet, South Carolina where he lived aboard a small boat. He spent this time exploring and photographing the waterways, islands and wildlife of the Low Country and he is now accepted as an advocate for environmental issues too which he speaks through his photography and essays. Mark was married in 2003 and now lives in Pawleys Island with his wife Ellen. He still keeps and uses the boat for photographic trips up and down the waterways of North and South Carolina. Marks photography is widely published in many national and local papers and magazines. When asked about his philosophy on nature photography he says: “I tend to concentrate on the smaller, secret side of nature that most people overlook, a different view on the world that surrounds us each and every day. I work in color but, black and white has a special place in my heart and tends to show a different view of things we pass by every day. I look at my photographs as portraits of nature rather than a picture and will spend hours with a single subject.”

Recently, Mark has expanded into Infrared Photography.  It has proven to be a major leap forward on his artistic path and has become an obsession to the point of an image ratio of over 100 Infrared images to 1 color! With 10 (still counting) Infrared converted Digital Camera bodies (canon 5D, 10D, 20D, G9, G10, Olympus E-P1 & E-PL1) Mark spends ALL of his time looking at EVERY scene for its possible Infrared Impact!