Ken’s introduction to photography began as a child, when he lived with his aunt and uncle in Hartford, CT. His uncle owned a large photography store and made his expertise, fine cameras and a very well equipped darkroom available to him at very early age. He pursued this as a hobby for his entire life, becoming a serious amateur into retirement.

Over the years, Ken has entered and won awards in local photo contests. He has shown his photography at the Blackstone River Theater Gallery in RI. This summer he had a one man show at the Best Coast Gallery in Broad Cove, Nova Scotia. He has opened Harbour Galleries as a photography studio and showroom for Photographic Art. He does printing and framing as well.

Most of Ken’s professional life has been spent in the plastics and jewelry industries as a color specialist. In 1975, he invented and marketed a color identification system, which is currently used in many schools and universities.

In 1992, Ken invented and holds the original patents on the color system used world-wide in the jewelry industry, called GemSet. This system was adopted by the Gemological Institute of America and has been used by their facilities throughout the world to teach colored stone grading and identification in all of their gemology classes. As the chief color consultant for the GIA, he recently assisted in converting the GemSet system to a computer based system. He has since retired from the GIA.

Ken’s background and professional expertise in the field of color along with his lifetime passion for photography, has given him an excellent understanding of digital photography and computer processing techniques.

Ken currently uses a Nikon D-300 with 18 -200 MM and 80-400MM lenses, a Leica D-Lux2 and a Panasonic L-150.