Born in Salinas California in 1943, Ron attended Camden High School there, majoring in English, Spanish, art, and typing. Upon graduating, he enrolled in San Jose City College where for two years he continued his study of both art and photography. In 1964 he joined the U.S. Navy and, after completing the Naval School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida, became a naval photographer. His first assignment was in the mobile photo unit as a motion picture photographer. Later he was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hancock off the coast of Vietnam, where he worked as a photo lab technician. 

     Ron's first big break as an artist came in 1983 as an outgrowth of the popularity of Cabbage Patch Dolls.Ron began painting oil portraits of the dolls and a Salinas television station did a story about them. The story eventually went national on NBC's "Today" show. Again in 1987 Ron's paintings received wide attention when his oils of Pope John Paul II appeared on network television and in magazines and newspapers around the world.

     In 1994 Ron's interests grew again, this time into the world of technology and the internet. With the creation of his own webpage, Ron was able to expand the audience for his art worldwide. At the same time, he and his wife Donna traveled throughout America's National Park System, compiling an extensive catalogue of three-dimensional photographs (also known as stereographs). Ron augmented his efforts to revive the lost art of stereo photography with his design and creation of a prismatic lens stereo viewer.     For the next ten years he sold his stereographs and his stereo viewers over the web, becoming known worldwide as an expert and consultant in stereographic techniques.

Among those who took an interest in Ron's stereographs was Arthur C. Clarke, probably the world's best known and bestselling science fiction writer. Ron sent the author a set of three-dimensional stereographs, titled "Dinosaurs." He also enclosed a print of "One Giant Leap," Ron's humorous depiction of a lion tamer/astronaut on the moon with seven lions. Neil Armstrong also received a print of "One Giant Leap," along with a note from the artist, "You never told us about this."

     In the year 2000, US astronauts sent back images from the surface of Mars which were posted on NASA's website. Using these images, Ron was able to combine certain views to create stereographs of Mars which he then published on the internet. His achievement was recognized in a front page story published by the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

     Today Ron lives with his wife in Lucerne, dividing his time between nature photography and portrait painting. He has produced three DVDs (one of the redwoods, and two depicting the four seasons of Lake County) which are offered for sale on his website, 3dviewmax.com. A slide show of his Lake County photography is also featured there.

     Ron's photography has been featured on the covers and inside many of Lake County's finest magazines (including Lake County's Konocti Visitor), and serves as the backdrop for a Lake County Marketing Program billboard on Highway 101 in Ukiah.

     Ron's favorite portrait subject has been Marilyn Monroe, and one of his paintings has been included inside and on the back cover of a new coffee table book, "Marilyn in Art," by Roger Taylor. Four of Ron's oil paintings of Princess Diana are included in a new book," Diana in Art," compiled by Mem Mehmet, now on bookshelves around the world. Mr Mehmet also compiled a recent "Madonna in Art" coffee table book.

     Ron is currently working on new paintings of Marilyn Monroe.  He is also offering prints of his Lake County Photography for sale on his website.