I would always take the occasional color street photograph. But when I first started photographing color photography was considered garish. There were exceptions of course: Eggelston, Stephen Shore and some others. But the view on that started to change. And I didn’t care anyway.

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After my wife passed away in 2019, I felt like I needed to mix things up in my life in a lot of ways. I knew my existence was forever altered. I was now the lone parent of a then 16-year-old daughter. As a “relief” to the pressure valve I started to experiment more with color.

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Once Covid lockdown happened, there weren’t that many people around to photograph. So I started pointing my camera at windows. Reflections were always a staple in my work, but now they started to take over.

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It’s been fun and challenging. I like creating visual labyrinths. I also paint colorful watercolor landscapes that border on abstraction. I have always liked abstract expressionist painters like Franz Kline with his large, mysterious forms. And I love photorealist painter Richard Estes and, of course, Edward Hopper.

I think my photography has been reaching my painting halfway.