About the Artist

Joel has been “shooting” since he was twelve. It was that unique combination of the aesthetic blending with the technical that first allured him. In fact the majority of his life’s pursuits were spent in the technical world with photography always in the background. He works commercially but it is his digital art and fine art photography for which he is best known. His style is unique. He seeks out compositions that are strong, often bold and impactful with clean lines and simple themes. 

Artist Statement

My passion for photography began during a family outing when I first saw how the warm evening light played on a vast field of wheat in the Oregon farm country. I marveled how it accentuated the individual grains and sculpted lavish gold contours changing a common field into something that expressed more than what it was. That’s how it began. I was perhaps twelve years old. Since then I have played in that light and its many infinite variations creating images that express another way of ‘seeing’ and images that evoke the extraordinary beauty that surrounds us here in the Northwest.

I have lived and worked in many areas of our country, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Boise. Yet as a native and again resident Oregonian, I was always compelled to return home, inexorably drawn by the stunning diversity of our landscape. I hope you enjoy this sampling of my photographs. 

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