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My photography is the culmination of three major parts of myself: my love and appreciation of nature and the world around us, my visual acuity, and a strong interest in technology. I became fascinated with photography at a very young age. I shot my first roll of film when I borrowed my parents Kodak Instamatic and took it to kindergarten. Before I was done with primary school (6th grade) I was shooting my fathers 35mm SLR. In Junior High I had set up a make shift darkroom in the bathroom and was printing my own black and white. In High School I started processing color slides and printing Cibachoromes. While in college I opened a rental darkroom store and studio. I shot professionally as a commercial and product photographer and my work has been seen in such places as the Wall Street Journal. High school is where computers came into the picture. I have a real fascination with computer graphics and this eventually encouraged to have a career in computers. Working in the computer field I managed to get published several times as a computer artist, game developer and desktop publisher. In those earlier years of personal computers I kept pursuing the idea of digital photography and played with many early attempts at digital imagery. Now that digital photography has truly come into it own and is offering the photographer tools and creative options that were never available prior, I have returned to my passion of photography. This is where my love
of nature and the outdoors comes in. Nature plays on my senses in
a way that I can only use photography to explain. Without the ‘right’
image a photograph is only a limited two dimensional representation
of a moment in time. Although, the ‘right’ image will
inspire memories - spray on your face from a raging water fall,
the sound of a crashing wave on a beach, the sensation of a gentle
breeze lipping over you and the ridge line you are traversing or
the chill of early morning air on a winters morning – It is
these memories that interact with the image to create a feeling
that can take you to places you could never get in your living room,
bedroom or office. If this occurs, the photographer has succeeded
in capturing more than a mere representation; they have captured
feelings. My goal is to capture images that inspire these feelings
in you, the viewer, and will allow you to take little mental journeys.
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