I take pictures of store windows.

That is, I take pictures of the mannequins, products, customers and clerks inside stores, and I include in the photographs the reflections on the windows: the passers-by, the clouds in the sky, the cars, buses or trucks on the street and the buildings facing the store.

My object is to combine the image of the contents of the window with the image of the reflections on the window - by definition two wholly unrelated images - into one single image that is interesting, or profound, or funny, or all of the above.

In this process, I never change the image. What you see is what I saw, with nothing added or taken away. There are never any double exposures, tricky manipulations or other fiddle-faddling.

My goal is to capture an object that is platonically ordinary - a shop window - and to convert it into something mysterious and beautiful.

I am happy when a viewer can look at my pictures and wonder about the relation between the interior of the shop and the reflection on the window. And I am supremely delighted when a viewer tells me that my pictures have given him or her a new way to see the world, an unanticipated pleasure in a moment that was previously dull, routine, banal. Comments like these make me think that my pictures have actually added something to the lives of others.

I have recently added two new Portfolios entitled “Paris by Night” (within the "Paris portfolio) and “Cuba.” Each of the pictures in these Portfolios is accompanied by a brief description of what I was trying to accomplish with that picture. None of these pictures have ever been available on-line, here or elsewhere. They are quite different from my “store windows” photographs.