I do most of my work along the North Shore of Lake Superior. The big blue lake makes a great background, and the variety of rocks is endless. All images are available for purchase in several formats. See the purchase prints page for details.

Perfect

Sugarloaf Cove, Minnesota. Sometimes, less is more.

Three Sisters

Schroeder, Minnesota

Family of Five

Schroeder, Minnesota

Close to the Edge II

I feel blue.

Wave in Red and Gray II

Wave in Red and Gray

Rhyolite Flower

Flower

Sunrise Luminosity

2013: Got up early to work at Lamb's Resort in Schroeder, MN. I had to create the balances before the sun came up. Coffee helped.

Sugarloaf Orbs

2013: One of my favorites. Taken at Sugarloaf Cove on Lake Superior. I haven't done a lot in this stacking style, but plan to explore it further.

Stack on Balance

'50s Postcard Association

Trying out some new color tones. Retro postcard?

Red Zig Zag

I don't Even Know...

It just happened.

Two's Company II

Two's Company

Sky Tower

Zag Tower

'50s Retro Orbs

Trying out some new color tones. Retro postcard?

Aqua Orbs

Big Hero

Quite a large stone, about the size of a watermelon. Difficult to balance because you can't lift easily. You have to "walk" it around and feel the very subtle changes in its desire to fall, or not fall.

Snow Orbs

Balancing some cool orbs in the front yard.

Nine in Red and Grey

2013: It's difficult to balance a large round stone on a slender support. Experimenting with relationships in color and shape.

Blue Stack

Top Heavy Detail

Close to the Edge

2013: A late-blooming favorite. This image sat almost unnoticed until I reviewed some originals for my 2014 Arboretum exhibit. Sometimes looking back again pays off; People have responded enthusiastically to this photo.

Daylight Between

2011: That's a water drop hanging from the top rock. I enjoy the tiny slices of daylight that sometimes peek between the rocks.

The Twenty

2013: As my friend John Felice Ceprano teaches: The spaces between the stones are just as important. I am looking forward to exploring this concept.

Huddle

2013: Go ahead, anthropomorphise all you want.

Which Way is Up?

2013: More dabbling in shape and color relationships.

Scarf

2012: Mouth of Cascade River, Lake Superior.

Delicate Zig Zag

2010

Lonesome

2010: Like some others, this photo sat in a folder, unloved, for a while. When I printed it to fill a last slot in my 2011 Arboretum show, I didn't imagine it would be the best-selling photo there. We are not always the best judges of our own work.

Orb Tower

2012

Aladdin Evening

2012: Part of a series of "stack on balance" photos of the same piece from several times and angles.

Aladdin Silhouette

2012: Part of a series of "stack on balance" photos of the same piece from several times and angles.

Eight in the Morning

2011: Named for the time it was created and the number of rocks that make it up.

Schroeder Sky

2011

Kadunce Afternoon

2010: I build this sculpture on a pleasant October afternoon. With the wind and waves, I rushed to get some photos, expecting it to blow over at any moment.

Kadunce Evening

After working on other beaches and getting dinner in Grand Marais, I retuned to find it still standing as the sun set.

Kadunce Morning

With my motel near this beach, I got up before sunrise to create some new pieces to photograph during the golden hour. I was very suprised to find it, standing blithely while the waves and spray raged.

Counterintuitive Spray

2010: An early favorite piece; a newly rediscovered photo.

Sun Dried

2012: Mouth of Cascade River, Lake Superior.

Short Stack

2011

Short Stack Silhouette

2011

Artist's Point

2010

Tilted Stack

2012

Portonovo BAWI

2012: Created at Portonovo, Italy, on the Adriatic Sea just south of Ancona. From BAWI 2012 - Balance Art World Intermeeting, the first ever international stone balancing conference.