Ralph's father served with the US Marine Corp during WW II and would spend his off duty hours free-diving  with improvised goggles and fins. His tales of the South Pacific with water so clear that it seemed like air stoked Ralph's imagination as a young boy. With summers spent on Cape Cod and fishing trips on his dad's boat young Ralph soon developed his own passion for the sea; a passion that remains strong today.

     First certified to dive in 1969 - the same year he went to Woodstock with his brother and friends - he took up underwater photography in the 70's. Those first efforts with a Nikonos camera provided the leverage that would drive him to become an accomplished  underwater photographer. He has since traveled throughout the Caribbean, Red Sea, Hawaii, Fiji, Philippines, New England and Atlantic Canada in search of those places of his youthful imagination. He has discovered and photographed many of them.

When not diving with seals off the Isle of Shoals or Tiger Sharks in the Bahamas Ralph lives in Dover NH with his wife Millie and their three children: Aileen, Emma and Robert. He works full time as a telecommunications engineer for Avaya Inc.