Artist's Statement

Trained as an artist, I am preoccupied with the arrangement of shapes and tones within the four sides of a photograph, regardless of subject. I like to force a composition and work the edges. Cropped heads and limbs, or petals and sepals...I like that tension. I use clean photographic technique that produces photographs that look like photographs and Photoshop only toward that end. I have a series of soft artsy florals that I like a lot too...but they still look like photographs. I love all kinds of photography; it is both my profession and my hobby. Street photography has to be at the top of my list though. Some photographers get a rush from capturing a beautiful sunset or rare wildlife...for me the moment of capturing a perfect expression or juxtaposition of people against their surroundings can't be beat. I like the quirkiness of our world and being able to record it in, as Cartier-Bresson said, a decisive moment. A split second seen as only I see it, that with my camera I can preserve for eternity.