Who I Am

Capturing a digital or film image, is for me, more about solidifying your true and beautiful moment than creating my own version of a false perfection. I love the idea that I can pull a single experience or memory out of time, and help others maintain its vividness with a photograph. It’s this sort of timelessness I strive to create whenever I pick up a camera, (or my iphone, if it’s more convenient!)

Photography as a profession, landed in my life more serendipitously than intentionally—though the value of photographic moments was instilled in me early on. I have been shooting for seven years now, and I love photographing people who take life seriously. They are my favorite subjects. —And by “serious,” I mean those who understand that life is a treasure, valuable, rich and full and fleeting. Those moments may be realized in a wedding, the birth of a child, a graduation, or that simple, instantaneous moment when joy alights on the face of someone you love.

Photographs are valuable for two reasons, first, because of our love for the people in them. Only pity or curiosity makes a person purchase a box of antique photographs and take them home. We value photos that contain faces we love—faces we have shared life with. Second, we value photographs because of the emotions they evoke.

As I shoot, I aim to remove myself from the picture, only capturing and enhancing what is already there. —A subtle brush of hands across a crowded room; a father’s smile as he dances with his little girl, now-married; that first kiss, one of millions to come in a couple’s new life together.

Photography provides a way for me to capture, savor, and share life in all of its glorious, beautiful, and real fullness. It just doesn’t get much better than that!

Here’s my little family.   I love them dearly and it began when my wife and I fell in love…