About Me

My love of outdoor photography began in high school when I was forced to take art to satisfy a graduation requirement. At the time I didn't care much for art. Thankfully there was one class that required very little artistic talent. Push the button, take the picture. I got this! At the time I had an inexpensive little Kodak digital camera that ran off AA batteries. During college I bought a Nikon Coolpix with a battery eating zoom lens, and after college bought an even bigger Nikon Coolpix P500 to take to Colorado. With this camera, I paddled a kayak stealthily on Norton Pond toward a bald eagle taking a bath. Like a robin in a garden birdbath, it was flicking its wings in the water. I experienced a rush like nothing else I’ve felt in my life but the pictures I took that day lacked the clarity I really wanted. Within two months of those shots being taken, I graduated to the DSLR camera I have today.

Nature and Landscape photography are my passion but I enjoy taking portraits too. Authenticity is what I aim to capture in my photos regardless of what people are doing. People belong outside, let nature be the studio, and let people be people. Mother Nature did a great job creating the backdrop for life. My mission is to take pictures of the beauty in the great outdoors and the many ways people interface with it.

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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” ― Dorothea Lange