Richard is an award-winning photographer / videographer who has specialized in location productions since 1980. He worked with a wide variety of clients in the U.S. and Europe, in fields that ranged from travel and architecture to agricultural equipment, steel manufacturing and financial institutions.

He has always, and continues to, pursue his first love - landscape photography - in many of the world’s wild and natural places. Richard’s work is in museum collections and in corporate and private collections worldwide. In 2005 his first book, The Lewis & Clark Trail: American Landscapes, was released by Quiet Light Publishing and was named Nature Book of the Year, Silver Medal by International Photographic Awards. His second book, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Five Decades of American Landscapes, was released in 2009 to many accolades and has become the bestselling photographic book in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park stores, currently in its second edition. In 2015 Richard started another book project which became a film documentary The Sweetwater Seas – North America’s Great Lakes which looks at the beauty and challenges facing the great lakes. His work has received multiple international awards including from the Lucie Awards and International Color and B&W Awards..