I started drawing when I was three. My babysitter was kind enough to save quite a few of my early drawings, which seem to focus on spaceships, airplanes, Star Trek, and futuristic buildings. And bugs. I guess I've stayed pretty true to my early interests: most of my artwork is science or science fictional in origin, and I got my Bachelor's degree in biology, so I guess the bugs are represented in an indirect way, too. And my photography concentrates in astronomy, airplanes, landscapes and architecture. We don't stray very far from our origins, I suppose.

I use a host of digital tools to create these images. I started using MacPaint in 1985, when my friend and psychopharmacology professor Frank Etscorn (at New Mexico Tech) first showed me his Macintosh 512K. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. A digital drawing tool! Amazing! When I transferred to the University of New Mexico, I discovered the Mac Lab in Johnson Gym, and I was completely hooked. I taught myself Adobe Illustrator Version 1, without the manual. Then it was on to Cricket Draw, SuperPaint, DTP applications like PageMaker and Quark XPress, Photoshop, PixelPaint, StrataVision 3D, Bryce, InfiniD, Poser, Painter, and on and on. I even know how to use the GIMP, but it's pretty clumsy compared to Photoshop.

I haven't done any original digital artwork recently; I'm focusing on photography these days.