JEWEL RIDGE was born out of the gaps between rules and deadlines. Over twenty years as an editorial and commercial photographer has taught me that there’s more to this calling than what’s in the spotlight and what ends up on the cover. It’s about the sanctity of NOTICING. It’s about the study of the movement of light, the surfaces of things, the spaces between things, in the microscopic and the whole.  It’s about a futile desire to hold on to the PRESENT MOMENT in a surge of sentimentality.

The natural world gives us a never-ending and always changing show.  It’s a theater where we and our creations co-exist with wind, currents, ice, mist and all forms of life. The curtain opens and light incessantly says, “look at this, now this, and now this,” until darkness enters and  lets us rest. And then, these images exist only in the minds eye and in the images we make. I believe that what we record on our sensors and in our minds become the markers and signposts that we follow as we CURATE OUR LIVES. These images are some of my memory gems that sparkle in the recesses of my archives.  I hope that they can help to bring some tranquility and grace to your spaces, whether in your minds eye or on your walls.