Artist Statement

Nature offers an infinite numbers of views when you combine changing light and weather conditions. There are great photographs waiting to be found everywhere, everyday, but they are almost never to be found easily. It takes patience and perseverance to capture these rare moments and freeze them in time for the casual observer to view and appreciate. The less obvious lessons of nature interest me the most. My photographs are most successful I believe, when they not only show beauty, but evoke a sense of wonder and mystery. 

I use my love for exploration as a vital tool in the first step of creating an image, an image, that allows the viewer to relive the exact moment nature told her unique story. The next step in the process involves using my minds eye to transform the raw digital data into something physical, something that evokes the same feeling of wonder that drew me to compose and capture the original scene. This phase is often times the most challenging part of the Creative Process. Getting the 2-D world of paper and ink to convey the same felling I experienced in that moment can take weeks or even months of making subtle changes to an image until it is just right.

To ensure there are no impediments to my post production process, I have put together a studio that gives me complete control over the creative process. Every Fine Art photograph I create has been processed, printed, matted and framed personally by me in my studio. This ensures that every photograph that leaves my studio is an uncompromising work of art that captures the emotions I felt in that fleeting moment.