I am a native of the Washington DC area.  Some of my earliest memories involve me rooting through and ruminating on photos taken by my father of political rallies, cultural events, and the recording of the faces of people from his role as reporter with a small newspaper.  They filled me with a way of looking and seeing that made me see opportunities everywhere to capture, save, and share what I saw.  My initial foray into photography was merely recording events at home, school, or on "next city over" outings with church.  However, when I turned 18, the seed of my passion for landscape photography was planted on my first hiking trip to the Shenandoah mountains.  

That fall, I attended the University of Maryland, College Park but after three years I dropped out, "to see and experience life..."  So, for the next ten years while living in or near Washington DC I would often take my camera, walk the city and practice shooting the monuments and landscapes of the Potomac River.  I eventually did finish my degree in English and then Creative Writing at University of Maryland in 1998 and moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  

I experienced nature in a new way living near the beach in Salisbury and then Ocean City, Maryland.  I learned more than ever before about the cyclical and ever-changing essence of nature, especially in areas such as Assateague Island.  I would spend hours at the beach watching dolphins, birds, wild ponies, the cycle of the tides and the sun travel through the sky.  Even with all of that splendor, I didn't take many photos.  It was all about soaking in the outdoors and the rhythm of life beyond the big city.  

I soon became a high school English and Humanities teacher for a decade in Delaware and Pennsylvania.  Then, in December 2012 I visited Dallas, Texas with a friend who ran in the Dallas Marathon.  On a whim, I relocated to Dallas by the summer of 2013.  It was on one trip to the State Fair of Texas, I picked up a brochure on Big Bend National Park, saw the desert and mountains, and set a goal to go.  

That goal was realized in 2015 when I went to Big Bend with my Canon 70D and took photos of the vastness of the desert and the mountain range.  I captured scenes as I climbed Emory Peak.  I instantly became enamored with the absolute beauty of the terrain and Edmund Burke's idea of the sublime. Both invigorating and fearful the prospect of taking one wrong step or turn taught me for the first time the true scale of humanity within nature.  I was immediately hooked into wanting to climb, hike, and see the natural wonders of the world through that lens.

Fast forward to 2020 when I visited Yellowstone Park and the Grand Teton Mountains.  It was then that I paired my love for nature with my new desire to do more than just record, but to portray a sense of the color and space I saw.  Whether it is in stunning locales or in spaces close to home, as a full-time outdoor / landscape photographer I am embarking on the next steps of enjoying the moments of the intersection of imagination and experience.  From now on and for the rest of my life I will work to experience and share the experience of the sublime through my unique vision of the world around me.