I am dedicating this website and the photos I have taken to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What ever talent I have was given to me by Him. I have been blessed to see and photograph so many beautiful places.

I was born in Farmington, New Mexico, in 1959. I lived there until I was three, and then moved to Reno, Nevada. At the age of five, I picked up my first camera, and we’ve had a love affair ever since. I started out with an old Brownie, then moved to a Kodak 110, and on to an 8 mm movie camera.  And, of course, I played around with the famous Polaroid, and in 2004 I bought my first Digital camera.

I became the family photographer as we traveled all over the southwest and northwest. That is where my love for landscapes began. The one memory that stands out in my mind more than anything is seeing Angel Falls when we visited Yosemite National Park.  This awe-inspiring event, along with seeing Ansel Adams’ photographs at the visitor center, led me on my journey that is photography.

When I was 10, we moved to Arkansas where I began to learn about its beautiful places. My family and I went camping a lot, and we would take weekend trips to my father‘s home town of Thayer, Missouri. That is when I first saw and fell in love with the Ozarks. At 17, I graduated from high school and went to work on tugboats. Of course, the 110 camera was right there with me as I traveled along the Arkansas, White and Mississippi Rivers. After 2 years on the tugboats, I went to work in a factory, and was a tool and die machinist for 43 years.  My job was a way for me to travel and see things, but my love has always been photography. Now that I am retired, I can pursue this love to my heart’s content.

After purchasing my first digital camera, I traveled around the world taking pictures, even climbing 3500 feet to get just the right angle on Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany. Amsterdam tulips in April, art and architecture in Paris, castles in Edinburgh, crown jewels in Scotland, China and the countryside of Ireland, the Rockies in Canada, wildlife in Zion National Park and Alaska, stingrays in the Grand Caymans, waterfalls in Jamaica, beach scapes in Haiti, underwater life in Cozumel, and volcanoes in Hawaii are some highlights in my photographic journals.

 My photography is my way of sharing the beauty in the world with others. A picture is truly worth a thousand words.

A Touch from Heaven photography

Email: atouchfromheavenphotography@gmail.com

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