me

I first discovered my love for photography when I was 10 years old.  My step-dad, Jeff, gave me an old Olympus 35mm manual camera and taught me all the basics for f-stops and shutter speeds.  I was addicted.  As part of a class project when I was 11, I created a photography book capturing human emotion.  Today, it is still important for me to capture emotion in my photography – real feeling.  I see real feeling in gestures, moods, a pop of color and always a sense of place.  But most often I find real feeling in the faces of my subjects - their natural expressions and reactions to their situations and surroundings.

Happiness, joy, exhilaration, bewilderment, patience, love, peace  – these are the things that keep me walking down the path of photography.