About the photographer...
Photography has been an interest
and a passion for most of my life, even as a child I was fascinated by an old Kodak
126 camera my father use to cherish. It had a special place not only where it was
stored,
but in my fathers heart too. It was trusty camera, always at
the
ready and in the day developing the prints would take a trip to the local drug
store than a week of anticipation while we waited. Many times I
would count the days down to their return. later as a teenager I had the good
fortune to to own a 35mm camera [Minolta SRT-MS II w/50mm lens] thanks to a gift from my mother. Soon
after acquiring the camera, I joined the photography club in school and the
would learn the world of the wet darkroom as new experiences opened up to me. What an amazing process
it was to
see your image come to life in the developer and even to this day it brings back good
memories. However fast forward many years you will find me
working as a senior manager for a global Information Technology Company
and over the past 10 years this career has afforded me the opportunity to see more of the world
in one month then many people see in an entire lifetime. During these travels.
my goal has been to capture a bit of this world in images and distill them
here. Harking back to my early days in the darkroom, many of my works are still
rendered in Black & White to allow the viewer to journey into the image, take
their own path and draw some of their own conclusions as if they where actually
there. While the color palate does have it's place, the lack of [color] seems
to allows the mind to wander differently invoking thought and inspiration.
themselves.