Photography Statement

Photography is one way that I am able to experience the moment, suspend time and re-connect with being. I photograph my experience of the moment and strive to not only capture the natural beauty before my eyes, but to place my feelings on film. I use light and composition to record images of actual perfect moments in time. I find myself drawn to intimate imagery where nature’s beauty presents itself through contemplation of the details. I believe my images are most successful when they reveal nature’s subtle elegance. I like my photographs to give a feeling of looking at a hidden world we don’t normally see.

Nature offers an infinity of views and changing light. There are great photographs waiting to be found everywhere, every day, but they are almost never to be found easily.

I find it fascinating that simply viewing an arrangement of shapes can communicate an understanding or feeling without using language or any other cognitive process. In the same way, certain musical chords or rhythms can directly communicate emotions or an aesthetic. I am always aiming for the point at which design and meaning intersect seamlessly. Finding the visual rhythms in natural forms is a way of gaining a glimpse of the greater design we can barely perceive — that we don't have words for — that connects us all. I strive to make images that make sense visually and trust that the metaphor, the song, will follow.

I feel that my strength as a photographer is not so much in creating something new, but in noticing how things are.