Today Robert is an aspiring art photographer whose work focuses mainly on nature, architectural subjects and, as he phrases it, "targets of opportunity." In the autumnal season of his life, he recalls Pearl Harbor, his father's Willys-Knight, and telephones with operators who asked, "Number, please?". His first camera was a box Brownie. He became the family photographer and, later, the photography editor of his high school yearbook. He laments that his nation is still at war, even though, as a nation, it seems to have learned to live with and by it.
He says, "The world is ever-more-rapidly evolving, with things familiar in my youth now worn-out relics. Corporate culture is overwhelming the emphasis on individualism that made us a great nation, and conspicuous consumption is returning as the fashionable way to live. The consequences of this evolution are becoming increasing evident. The photographs I make often show something lost or going away, or something just beginning, or just things, things sitting as the surrounding world passes and changes, and occasionally, I show a part of the changing world."