Now that I have retired from a retail business in the Bavarian town of Leavenworth, WA, I have been able to travel much more easily. I have enjoyed being quite serious about photography since the early 80s, and for a period of time was a professional portrait and wedding photographer.

In this site you will find photo galleries that represent some of the special places I have visited lately..... New Zealand (I've been there 10 different times!), Australia (6 times), Tasmania (2 trips). You've find plenty of photo galleries of images taken in the beautiful South West parts of the USA. Recently I traveled to both Colorado, Utah, the European Alps in July 2007 and Wales in May of 2009. In 2010 the trip was to the UTAH National Parks.