Photography helps us to see the details and the frozen moments of time that we might otherwise pass by. It triggers our memories and emotions, and lets us pause to appreciate the light, the color and the aesthetics of a scene with a viewpoint we may not have otherwise discovered.


Photography has been a serious avocation of Jack’s since the 1970’s. While in college he took advantage of photography classes that taught him about light, composition, darkroom technique and black & white printing.

Photography took a back seat to his professional career in computer software consulting, but that gave him the opportunity to travel extensively in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Africa. He photographed the people, landscape, culture and architecture in those places more for his own and his family’s enjoyment than with any thought of public display.

In 2007, his image "Mountain, Clouds and Ice" was awarded Best in Show at the Blue Ridge Fine Photography exhibition sponsored by the Transylvania County Arts Council. His work has also been exhibited at the Hollingsworth Gallery and is currently exhibited at Bluewood Gallery. His interests tend toward travel and landscapes, capturing the ‘good light’, and getting the occasional shot of people in the act of being themselves.

Jack is very active in the Land of Waterfalls camera club and has volunteered photographic services to The Heart of Brevard to help that organization build a portfolio of images for the web and for their marketing efforts.


“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.” -- Henri Cartier-Bresson